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5 tasks that drain your week, with the exact Claude skills that handle each one on demand. No looping, no $400 API bills, no flaky orchestration.

  • Lead intake skill: drops every form straight into your CRM
  • Doc generation skill: proposals, contracts, briefs from one template
  • Client comms skill: writes follow-ups in your voice from past emails
  • Weekly reporting + founder admin skills: full prompts included

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5 boring tasks that bleed your week. 5 Claude skills that handle them on demand. Full prompts, install steps, when to use a skill vs. an agent.

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What's Inside

Lead intake skill: drops every form straight into your CRM Doc generation skill: proposals, contracts, briefs from one template Client comms skill: writes follow-ups in your voice from your past 100 emails Weekly reporting skill: reads your data, writes the update, sends it Found

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WHAT THIS IS

Every week I see somebody stacking a 23 agent AI team for a task that takes 3 minutes a day.

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SKILL 1 - LEAD INTAKE

What It Does Drops every inbound lead form into your CRM, formatted, deduped against existing records, tagged by source and intent.

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  1. SKILL 2 - DOC GENERATIONWhat It Does Proposals, contracts, briefs, statements of work, all from one prompt template that pulls your standard sections and inserts the client specific details.
  2. SKILL 3 - CLIENT COMMSWhat It Does Writes follow-up emails in your voice based on your last 100 outbound emails.
  3. SKILL 4 - WEEKLY REPORTINGWhat It Does Reads your data, writes the update, sends it.
  4. SKILL 5 - FOUNDER ADMINWhat It Does Invoicing, expenses, scheduling, vendor follow-ups.
  5. WHY SKILLS BEAT AGENTS FOR THIS WORKPREDICTABLE : One trigger, one output.
  6. WHERE AGENTS ACTUALLY EARN THEIR KEEPI am not anti-agent.
  7. HOW TO INSTALL SKILLS IN CLAUDEOpen Claude Desktop.
  8. ONE LAST RULEIf a skill saves you 10 minutes a week, that is 8 hours a year.

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