I built EverFreely™. It works. I've been using it myself and it does exactly what I designed it to do. But here's what nobody talks about when they show you their AI app on social media: vibe coding something that works for you personally and building something that's production-ready for other people to use are two completely different things. The architecture, the error handling, the user experience when it's not you pressing the buttons, that's a different ballgame entirely.

So this weekend I'm in the MindStudio Remy hackathon redesigning the whole thing from the ground up. Same vision, same logic, completely new build. The goal is shipping to alpha users next week.

Something else I've been thinking about. Everything I've built over the last few months, the AI podcast pipeline, the blog agent, the website, the business brain that makes Claude sound like me, I built all of it from scratch by figuring it out. And I keep getting asked how. So I'm considering building workshops or courses where you leave with the actual thing working. Not a slide deck about what's possible. You show up, we build it together, and you walk out with a functioning system.

I'm thinking: build your AI podcast in a day, build an automated blog agent, create a business brain so AI actually knows you. Maybe more. But before I build anything, I want to know from you: is this something you'd pay for? And would you want it live (workshop style with Q&A), self-paced (a course you can do on your own time, with asynchronous Q&A), or are you looking for something even more personalized like a 1-on-1 with us building it in real time together and an audit of your business with insight on exactly where AI could give you more money and time? Reply to this email and tell me. I read every response.

I want to be very clear here, any of this you can do on your own and for free. Information is everywhere, I’ve shared my tool stacks and workflows, but I know that a lot of us like community and connected interaction. So this is me putting feelers out, because I just don’t have time to answer everyone’s one off questions no matter how much I may way to. I put out a podcast, this newsletter, social media videos, and The Connectors Market blog. All are available on my website which is plenty of free resources. Execution is up to you.

Claude has Skills, which are essentially packaged, reusable workflows. These are saved prompts you invoke with one click instead of retyping.

A Skill is not an agent or an automation. It's a repeatable instruction set you teach the tool once and invoke whenever you need it. You write it once, save it, and every time the task comes up, you run the Skill instead of re-explaining your entire process from scratch.

Here are seven that directly create money, time, or options for service-based business owners. Copy them in, tell Claude to optimize them with the “skill creator” Skill, then use them this week.

1. Client Research Briefing "Here is my calendar for the coming week: [paste meetings]. For every external meeting, produce a one-page briefing: who I'm meeting (name, title, company), what changed in their world in the last 30 days, three industry conversations this quarter, three non-obvious talking points, and one question that demonstrates real homework. Skip internal meetings. Deliver as one document I can read in fifteen minutes."

2. Proposal Draft from Transcript "Here is a transcript of a sales call: [paste]. Draft a proposal in my voice that includes: the problem they described, the scope of what I'll deliver, timeline, investment, and next steps. Use the specific language the prospect used to describe their problem. Keep it under two pages."

3. Weekly Content from Voice Note "Here is a transcript of a five-minute voice note: [paste]. Produce: one blog post draft (900 words), one newsletter section (200 words), three LinkedIn posts (each under 200 words), and five hooks for short-form video. All in my voice. Use contractions. No corporate language."

4. Follow-Up Email After Meeting "Here is a transcript of a meeting I just had: [paste]. Draft a follow-up email that references three specific things they said, restates any commitments I made, and proposes a clear next step with a date. Warm but professional. Under 200 words."

5. Competitor Quick Scan "Research [competitor name] and give me: their current positioning, their pricing model, three things they're doing well, three gaps in their offering I could exploit, and any recent news. Summarize in one page."

6. Case Study Draft from Client Results "I just finished a project for a client. Here's what they came to me with: [describe the problem]. Here's what I delivered: [describe the outcome]. Here's the result they got: [metrics, feedback, or quote]. *** paste in your transcript from your meeting using a recording tool like Granola or speak it out in 10 seconds with a voice-to-text tool like Wispr Flow *** Draft a 400-word case study in my voice with this structure: the problem, the approach, the result, and one sentence on who this is for. No buzzwords. Write it like I'm telling a colleague what happened."

7. Landing Page Copy "Write the copy for a one-page landing page for my [service/product]. Include: a headline that names the problem, three benefit statements, one social proof section, and a call to action. Write in my voice. Use contractions. No buzzwords. Keep it scannable."

Pro-Tip: Have Cowork execute them for you, essentially making them agentic.

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