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Skills & Playbooks

✦ step-by-step

Skills are monetizable capabilities β€” workflow, stack, cost, ramp-up time. Playbooks are full business recipes. Both written for a team of one.

Skills Β· Capabilities worth learning

One monetizable capability per entry: the workflow, the stack, the cost, the ramp-up, the deliverable.

Agents Read β†’

Build your agent skill stack (before your competitors do)

The agent skills ecosystem went from one registry to eight marketplaces in six months. Knowing how to evaluate, install, and combine skills is itself a skill.

Cost
$0–50 one-time per paid skill; many are free
Time to learn
A weekend to set up; ongoing curation
Deliverable
A working stack of 5–10 skills covering research, content, and ops
Video Read β†’

AI video: from prompt to publishable clip

AI video editing is the fastest-growing freelance skill on Upwork. The workflow: generate raw footage with Veo, Kling, or Runway, then shape it into something a client can actually use.

Cost
$30–95/mo (one mid-tier video model + editing tool; verify current pricing)
Time to learn
2–3 weeks to first paid deliverable
Deliverable
A 30–60s product video with synced audio, in 3 aspect ratios
Writing Read β†’

An AI writing system that ships every week

Not "writing with AI" β€” a pipeline: research β†’ draft β†’ edit β†’ distribute β†’ repurpose, tuned to your voice.

Cost
$20–60/mo (one frontier LLM subscription + optional SEO/keyword skill)
Time to learn
1–2 weeks to a repeatable weekly loop
Deliverable
1 long-form piece + 3 short posts + 1 newsletter, from one research pass

Playbooks Β· Full business recipes

Build

How to build and launch an MVP with AI

A concrete MVP workflow for going from idea to live product surface with AI-assisted planning, UI scaffolding, coding, and launch discipline.

Outcome

Launch a clearer MVP with one stack, one product promise, faster implementation, and fewer false starts between prototype and real release.

Best for

Founders, indie hackers, consultants, and creators who want to get an MVP live quickly without turning tool exploration into the main project.

Why now

Use when you need to ship a first usable product or marketing surface fast, but do not want to waste weeks bouncing between builders, prompts, and half-finished directions.

Open the playbook β†’
Build Read β†’

AI Made Execution Abundant. Founders Need Four New Ledgers.

Anthropic's founder playbook, reframed as four operating ledgers: evidence, context, attention, and compounding advantage.

Outcome: Build an AI-native startup with clearer stage gates, persistent context, less founder bottleneck, and a more defensible moat.
Operations Read β†’

How to build a client portal and resource hub with AI

A practical model for turning scattered docs, updates, recordings, and onboarding materials into a client-facing portal that reduces back-and-forth and improves delivery.

Outcome: Build a client portal that makes onboarding smoother, delivery clearer, and your service business easier to run.
Media Read β†’

How to write and self-publish a nonfiction book with AI

A practical system for turning an idea, source archive, and working outline into a finished nonfiction manuscript you can revise, package, and publish with AI support.

Outcome: Write and self-publish a nonfiction book with a clearer promise, stronger chapter structure, tighter source discipline, and a simpler production path.
Growth Read β†’

How to run customer research interviews with AI

A repeatable workflow for recruiting participants, running better interviews, and turning transcripts into sharper messaging, product decisions, and sales insight.

Outcome: Run customer research interviews that produce clearer patterns, better language, and more useful downstream decisions.
Growth Read β†’

How to run a consulting funnel with AI

A practical consulting funnel for turning content, referrals, and inbound interest into qualified discovery calls, proposals, and clients with less manual chasing.

Outcome: Build a more reliable consulting funnel with better qualification, sharper discovery, stronger follow-up, and fewer leads getting lost between interest and proposal.
Growth Read β†’

How to build a multilingual content website with AI

A practical system for publishing a multilingual content site with one source language, cleaner translation workflows, lighter review, and less content drift across markets.

Outcome: Build a multilingual content site with clearer source-of-truth rules, better translation quality control, and a workflow that scales beyond manual copy-paste localization.
Media Read β†’

How to create and sell an online course with AI

A practical system for turning expertise into an online course with AI-assisted curriculum design, lesson production, sales assets, and student support.

Outcome: Launch a clearer course business with a stronger curriculum, faster production workflow, better student experience, and a simpler path from expertise to revenue.
Media Read β†’

How to write a novel with AI

A practical workflow for using AI as a story-bible, drafting, and revision partner without letting it flatten your voice or write a generic book for you.

Outcome: Finish a stronger manuscript with a working story bible, faster scene drafting, cleaner revision passes, and better continuity from chapter to chapter.
Media Read β†’

How to turn expertise into a paid newsletter with AI

A concrete system for turning your expertise into a paid newsletter with stronger issue formats, faster research, better packaging, and clearer subscription logic.

Outcome: Launch or sharpen a paid newsletter with one strong editorial promise, faster issue production, cleaner conversion paths, and a product readers can actually renew.
Media Read β†’

How to build a faceless YouTube channel with AI

A practical playbook for building a faceless YouTube workflow with AI research, scripting, voice, visuals, editing, and shorts repurposing.

Outcome: Build a more repeatable faceless YouTube system with better scripting, faster production, clearer visual choices, and one video that can also feed shorts and other channels.
Growth Read β†’

How to build an AI-powered creator business

A concrete operating system for turning one researched idea into newsletter issues, short videos, clips, and paid audience products without turning yourself into a content factory.

Outcome: Build a repeatable creator-business loop: one flagship asset, multiple derivative formats, one home base, and a clearer path to audience ownership and revenue.
Operations Read β†’

How to automate a one-person business with AI

A practical ops playbook for using AI and automation tools to handle meeting notes, admin, follow-up, lead routing, and recurring internal workflows without creating a fragile mess.

Outcome: Build a lighter solo-ops system where meetings, notes, tasks, handoffs, and routine follow-up move faster and require less memory to keep alive.
Media Read β†’

How to launch a podcast with AI

A detailed solo-podcasting workflow covering prep, recording, transcript editing, clips, show notes, and distribution with current AI tools.

Outcome: Launch a repeatable podcast system with a clear format, faster post-production, better repurposing, and one episode that turns into multiple useful assets.
Growth Read β†’

How to turn one webinar into a month of content with AI

A practical workflow for turning one webinar into replay assets, clips, emails, posts, FAQs, and sales follow-up instead of letting the recording die after the live event.

Outcome: Build a repeatable webinar repurposing system where one session generates a replay, social clips, nurture emails, follow-up assets, and future demand instead of one-time attention.
Media Read β†’

How to build a premium research archive with AI

A detailed system for turning ongoing research, briefs, notes, and source material into a premium archive that readers pay to search, revisit, and learn from.

Outcome: Build a more valuable research archive with better intake, tagging, synthesis, packaging, and paid access so your work compounds instead of expiring.
Growth Read β†’

How to create a lead magnet and email funnel with AI

A practical system for building a lead magnet and email funnel with AI so subscribers move from opt-in to trust to a clear next offer instead of stalling after the first download.

Outcome: Build a clearer lead magnet and email funnel with stronger opt-in assets, better delivery, smarter segmentation, and a more deliberate path from subscriber to buyer.
Media Read β†’

How to build a premium briefing business with AI

A concrete system for turning recurring research and judgment into a premium briefing product with clear issue structure, faster prep, and stronger renewal logic.

Outcome: Build a tighter premium briefing business with a clearer editorial question, denser issues, faster production, and a product readers can justify renewing.
Media Read β†’

How to build a newsletter, podcast, and video flywheel with AI

A practical flywheel for turning one researched idea into a newsletter issue, a podcast episode, video assets, and repeatable audience growth without building a full media team.

Outcome: Build a tighter media flywheel where one core story feeds newsletter, podcast, and video outputs while strengthening audience trust, discoverability, and monetization.
Growth Read β†’

How to productize advisory into a monthly retainer with AI

A practical playbook for turning custom advisory work into a clearer monthly retainer with defined scope, recurring artifacts, and healthier margins.

Outcome: Build a productized monthly retainer with clearer scope, repeatable delivery, stronger client communication, and less margin loss from custom work.
Growth Read β†’

How to build a paid membership business with AI

A practical system for building a paid membership with clearer tiers, recurring programming, better onboarding, and stronger retention without turning it into a content treadmill.

Outcome: Build a paid membership with a clearer promise, repeatable programming, better onboarding, and a stronger retention loop that one operator can sustain.
Growth Read β†’

How to build a solo advisory business with AI

A practical system for building a solo advisory business with stronger prep, sharper calls, better follow-up, and more reusable intellectual property.

Outcome: Build a more durable solo advisory business with clearer positioning, faster client prep, stronger decision memos, and a better path from conversations to reusable IP.
Growth Read β†’

The AI growth stack for a newsletter business

A practical growth stack for turning one strong newsletter issue into search depth, answer-engine visibility, and repeat attention.

Outcome: Make newsletter growth less dependent on one channel and more dependent on a repeatable owned-media system.