Master 80% of Claude for Small Business in 19 Minutes — Transcript
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- 0:00So, Anthropic just released Claude for
- 0:02small business. It's their new free
- 0:03plugin that includes 15 AI workflows
- 0:05across areas like finance, operations,
- 0:08and marketing. Honestly, this is a gold
- 0:10mine for finally automating repetitive
- 0:11work. Before this plug-in was released,
- 0:13it was pretty difficult for the average
- 0:15small business owner to build effective
- 0:17workflows in Claude. But because this
- 0:18plug-in was specifically designed for
- 0:20small business use cases, it's super
- 0:22valuable right out of the box. So, in
- 0:24this video, I'll break down what the
- 0:26small business plug-in is, how to set it
- 0:27up, then we'll rapid fire through 13
- 0:29tactics to make sure you're getting the
- 0:31most out of it. I'm Thaddius. I'm a
- 0:32former senior data scientist and the
- 0:34founder of Elevate. We build AI systems
- 0:36for small businesses every day. And
- 0:37every week, I break down what works here
- 0:39so you can use AI better in your own
- 0:41work, even if you don't have a technical
- 0:43background. Let's get into it. First,
- 0:44let's go over what Cloud plugins are and
- 0:46why everyone's freaking out about them.
- 0:48To put this in perspective, when
- 0:50Anthropic released Cloud Co-work, the
- 0:51app these plugins run inside, investors
- 0:54in Wall Street were really shook and
- 0:56started moving their investments. In
- 0:57February 2026, a single AI release wiped
- 1:00out about $300 billion in software stock
- 1:03value. In a matter of days, people
- 1:05started calling this selloff a SAS
- 1:07apocalypse. Anthropic's own CEO, the
- 1:09makers of Claude, even said this at a
- 1:11recent JP Morgan event. I don't know
- 1:13what will happen to the current cohort
- 1:14of SAS companies. The situation is
- 1:16highly uncertain. It is very possible
- 1:17that some of them will lose value, go
- 1:19bankrupt. It all depends on their
- 1:21response. All that to say, these plugins
- 1:23are really powerful and it's still
- 1:24early. So now is definitely the right
- 1:26time to really jump in and take
- 1:28advantage. So let's break down what
- 1:29Cloud plugins actually are because there
- 1:31are three pieces working together here.
- 1:33A skill, a connector, and a plug-in. I
- 1:35know there are a ton of new releases in
- 1:37the AI space each week, but these three
- 1:39concepts are very important because
- 1:41these are the standard building blocks
- 1:42that every AI company is now adopting.
- 1:45So, I want you to actually understand
- 1:46what each of these is doing. Because
- 1:48understanding these building blocks is
- 1:50going to help you use AI better than the
- 1:51majority of businesses. And once you
- 1:53understand how these three fit together,
- 1:55the rest of this video is going to make
- 1:56a lot more sense. So, first, let's talk
- 1:58about skill. If you've seen The Matrix,
- 2:01you already understand skill. That's the
- 2:02scene where Neo just plugs into a
- 2:04computer and instantly downloads the
- 2:06ability to do kung fu into his brain. In
- 2:08the movie, he just opens his eyes and
- 2:10says, "I know kung fu." It's like if you
- 2:12were able to transport a skill or
- 2:14ability from one person to another in an
- 2:16instant. This comparison, by the way, is
- 2:18so on point that even a product manager
- 2:20at Anthropic shared that this is his
- 2:22favorite analogy to understand how
- 2:24skills work. Now, what does this exactly
- 2:26look like in a small business? Well, you
- 2:28might have a specific way that you like
- 2:30to do your financial monthly reporting,
- 2:31the exact order you want to see your
- 2:33metrics, your favorite visualizations or
- 2:35charts, or just your built-up intuition
- 2:37on what numbers look like, good, bad, or
- 2:40incredible. Well, what if you were able
- 2:42to instantly give a new member of your
- 2:43team all of that expertise and knowledge
- 2:45that you've built up and they were able
- 2:47to execute that task just like you every
- 2:49time? That's what skills allows you to
- 2:51do. It's a task you teach Claude once
- 2:53and then from then on, it just knows how
- 2:55to do it and it does it the same way
- 2:56every time. Normally, you chat back and
- 2:58forth with Claude to do multi-step
- 3:00workflows, but now you can just select
- 3:02the correct skill and then the entire
- 3:03thing runs even if you have 5, 10, 15
- 3:06steps in a workflow. Now, let's break
- 3:08down connectors. Okay, let's just
- 3:10imagine for a second that Neo said to do
- 3:12kung fu he needed nunchucks. And I know
- 3:14that doesn't actually happen in the
- 3:16movie, but let's just go along with
- 3:17this. Knowing how to fight is one thing.
- 3:19Having access to the tool that you need
- 3:21to fight is a different thing. The
- 3:23nunchucks are the connectors in this
- 3:25example. It's the tool that he needs to
- 3:26do the job in that moment. So, here's
- 3:28what that looks like in a small
- 3:30business. If you ask a new team member
- 3:31to do the monthly finance reporting, the
- 3:33tool that they're going to need access
- 3:34to could be QuickBooks. So there's
- 3:36really no use in giving them the skills
- 3:38or ability to do the financial reporting
- 3:40unless you're also giving them access to
- 3:42QuickBooks where your financial data is.
- 3:44This problem is exactly what plugins
- 3:46solve. A plug-in bundles together the
- 3:48ability and the tools to do a job in one
- 3:50package. And that's the really the whole
- 3:52reason that this entire plugin exists as
- 3:54one install instead of 15 different
- 3:56skills that you download. Enthropic
- 3:58already did the work of pairing every
- 4:00skill with the exact connectors that it
- 4:01needs. So it's very easy to just share
- 4:04this with any small business. All right,
- 4:05let's set up the Cloud for Small
- 4:07Business plug-in. There are only two
- 4:08things to do and this whole thing will
- 4:10just take 5 minutes. First, install it.
- 4:12Open up the Cloud desktop app. And if
- 4:14you've only ever used Cloud in the
- 4:15browser, this is the app to download.
- 4:16Then go to customize, browse plugins,
- 4:19and then search small business. Go ahead
- 4:21and click install. Second, connect your
- 4:23apps because every skill in this plug-in
- 4:25works through these app. To start off,
- 4:26they have QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot,
- 4:29Canva, Docu Sign, Google, and Microsoft
- 4:31with more coming soon. But just turn on
- 4:33whatever you use most for now. And if
- 4:35you're connecting anything sensitive
- 4:36like your QuickBooks, there's one
- 4:37privacy setting that I would flip on
- 4:39first. So, we're going to cover that in
- 4:41tactic number three. All right. Now that
- 4:42you're set up, let's make sure you get
- 4:43the most out of it. Here are the 13
- 4:45tactics. Tactic number one, find the
- 4:47best workflows to automate. A lot of
- 4:48what I hear from small businesses is
- 4:50that they try to use Cloud Code or
- 4:51Zapier and it kept breaking and the
- 4:53output was bad. So, then they just gave
- 4:55up on automating workflows. If you
- 4:57choose the wrong workflow, you're
- 4:58already at a huge disadvantage because
- 5:00not everything is meant for AI
- 5:01automation. So, here's the simple
- 5:03framework that instantly tells you what
- 5:05your best AI use cases are and builds
- 5:07you a simple AI roadmap. It's called the
- 5:09AI opportunity zone. And to make it
- 5:11easy, I turned this entire framework
- 5:12into just a prompt here. So, you can go
- 5:14ahead and copy and paste this into your
- 5:16cloud. It'll ask you a couple questions
- 5:17and then give you back the best use
- 5:19cases for your work. So, make sure you
- 5:21go ahead and screenshot or copy them.
- 5:22There are three qualities that your
- 5:24workflow needs in order to be a good
- 5:26candidate for AI automation. High
- 5:28friction. Is this repetitive or
- 5:29annoying? High value. Is this tied to
- 5:31money, client work, or any outcomes that
- 5:34matter for your business? And then
- 5:35feasible. Can this actually be broken
- 5:37down into a clear set of steps for AI to
- 5:40follow? For most small business owners,
- 5:41that ends up being something related to
- 5:43sales or marketing. Things like chasing
- 5:45invoices, following up with leads, or
- 5:47creating content that allows you to get
- 5:49more customers. So, once you found your
- 5:50top few workflows, you can compare these
- 5:52against the included skills in the small
- 5:54business plug-in and then choose the
- 5:56ones that align best with your use
- 5:58cases. Everything about trying to use AI
- 6:00better is going to be much easier when
- 6:01you just start in the right place.
- 6:03Tactic two, make your skills
- 6:05automatically self-improve. Honestly,
- 6:07social media videos make setting up AI
- 6:09workflows for your business way easier
- 6:12than they actually are. If you just use
- 6:13generic skills that are meant for
- 6:15everyone, then they're not going to be
- 6:16specific to how you work. Maybe the tone
- 6:19is off or misses details specific to how
- 6:22you like to run things. So, we need to
- 6:23adapt these skills to how we work. And
- 6:26that's where a self-improving loop comes
- 6:28in. Which, by the way, the idea of a
- 6:29self-improving loop is what all the tech
- 6:31and AI founders have been obsessed with
- 6:33recently because it is a very powerful
- 6:35concept. Now, don't make the mistake of
- 6:36trying to customize an entire skill at
- 6:38once. It's hard to know exactly how your
- 6:40process or reasoning is different from
- 6:42how these skills are set up. The easiest
- 6:44way to create a self-improving loop is
- 6:46to use what I call a close skill. Here's
- 6:48how it works. At the end of your work
- 6:50session in cloud co-worker code, you've
- 6:52probably given it a ton of feedback or
- 6:54revealed the way you like something done
- 6:56throughout your chat. So, this close
- 6:58skill is a skill that you run at the end
- 7:00of each of your session and you can
- 7:01trigger it in one of two ways. You can
- 7:03navigate with a slash and find the skill
- 7:05or you could just say you're done for
- 7:07the day or you want to wrap up and
- 7:08Claude will recognize what you mean and
- 7:10then run the closed skill. So, the first
- 7:12thing it does is read back through the
- 7:14entire session and then presents a
- 7:15summary of the session to me along with
- 7:17three questions. First, what did I get
- 7:19done? I tell it and that gets logged to
- 7:21my change log, which is a running
- 7:23history of what I got done. Second, what
- 7:25did I decide and why? And this is the
- 7:27important part. By default, Claude can
- 7:29see the files you've created or edited,
- 7:31but it can't see why you made the call
- 7:33unless you specifically tell it. The
- 7:35voice over of the reason behind your
- 7:37actions is what really teaches Claude
- 7:39how to do your work. And if you think
- 7:40about it, this is how your colleagues or
- 7:42employees work. Also, you don't just
- 7:44give them a step by step. You tell them
- 7:46the steps and also why you're performing
- 7:48each of those steps. That's how you
- 7:50really transfer your expertise. Third,
- 7:52did anything change about how I work? Is
- 7:54there a new rule or a new preference
- 7:55that I discussed? Claude then updates
- 7:57any skills or instructions that it needs
- 7:59from your feedback. Self-improving loops
- 8:01are the difference between AI that just
- 8:03creates more admin work for you and then
- 8:05AI that can actually eliminate
- 8:07repetitive work and free up your time
- 8:09and energy. Tactic number three, don't
- 8:11train AI on your sensitive data. This is
- 8:13an important one and I don't see anyone
- 8:14really talking about it. So, if you care
- 8:16about data privacy, you're going to want
- 8:18to pay attention to this one. On pro and
- 8:19max plans, so not Team or Enterprise,
- 8:21Anthropic may use your chats to help
- 8:23improve Claude. And this setting is on
- 8:25by default. Most people don't know that
- 8:27this toggle is there. Now, to be fair,
- 8:29the raw data a connector pulls in, like
- 8:31your QuickBooks numbers, aren't
- 8:33automatically sent to Enthropic to train
- 8:35on. But if you're going back and forth
- 8:37in a chat and you mention any of these
- 8:39sensitive numbers, that information
- 8:41could be sent to Enthropic to train
- 8:42Claude. And honestly, in practice,
- 8:44you're going to paste these numbers and
- 8:46talk through your business, and it's
- 8:47really easy for sensitive data to just
- 8:49slip out in your chats. So, if you want
- 8:51to make sure none of that is used to
- 8:52train Claude, follow these steps. Go
- 8:54into your settings, go to privacy, turn
- 8:56off the toggle that says, "Help improve
- 8:58our AI models. Or if you're running on
- 9:00team or enterprise plans, this setting
- 9:02doesn't apply to you, so you're good."
- 9:04Tactic four, turn a one-time report into
- 9:06a live dashboard. Sometimes you have a
- 9:08workflow that you run often to monitor
- 9:10where you're at. For example, you might
- 9:12run the cash flow snapshot skill and see
- 9:14where your profit is month-to- date. If
- 9:16you catch yourself running a skill
- 9:17repeatedly to get business metrics, for
- 9:19example, you might be better off just
- 9:20turning that into a live dashboard. And
- 9:22Cloud Co's life artifacts is the easiest
- 9:24way to build this with just natural
- 9:26language. That's the dashboard that
- 9:28connects to your data and then refreshes
- 9:30every time you open it. So you can stop
- 9:31rerunning those same snapshot or
- 9:33reporting skills every week. And the
- 9:35same idea applies to almost any report
- 9:37that this plug-in produces. Things like
- 9:39a sales pipeline, a weekly op summary or
- 9:42a marketing performance recap or a
- 9:44dashboard of your content analytics.
- 9:46After you run the skill, just ask for a
- 9:48live artifact so that this becomes a
- 9:50dashboard. Then you're going to see a
- 9:51new dashboard created in your artifacts
- 9:53tab on the left and you can even pin it
- 9:55for easy access. Tactic five, redirect
- 9:58skills to your actual tool stack. Here's
- 10:00something most people don't realize when
- 10:02they first install the Claude for small
- 10:03business plugin. These skills are
- 10:05unlocked to the exact tool they're named
- 10:07after. There are instructions that
- 10:08Claude could read and then apply to any
- 10:10app. For example, let's say the plug-in
- 10:12connects to HubSpot, but you don't use
- 10:14HubSpot. These skills could still be
- 10:16really valuable. You could have Claude
- 10:18read that skill and then adapt it to
- 10:20whatever CRM you actually use instead.
- 10:22Most of these tools do the same handful
- 10:24of things under the hood, so Claude can
- 10:26usually retarget it without much
- 10:28trouble. And plenty of CRM have MCP
- 10:30servers, which stands for model context
- 10:32protocol, which is basically just a
- 10:34standardized way for any AI tool to
- 10:36connect into Cloud. So, if you want to
- 10:37do this, here's the workflow. Let's say
- 10:39you use the Relatable CRM instead of
- 10:42HubSpot, but you're interested in the
- 10:43HubSpot skilled. Once you make sure
- 10:45Relatable has their own MCP, which I
- 10:48checked and they do, you would connect
- 10:49it to Claude by using Claude's
- 10:51connectors and adding a custom MCP and
- 10:53then grabbing the MCP URL from Relatable
- 10:56setup guide. Then go ahead and add
- 10:57whatever HubSpot skill you were
- 10:59interested in and tell Claude the
- 11:01following prompt. I have the following
- 11:02skill file meant for HubSpot, but I use
- 11:04Relatable as my CRM. Rebuild the same
- 11:07workflow and adapt this skill to work
- 11:08with a relatable MCP. Cloud will then
- 11:11guide you from there and a few minutes
- 11:12later you should have a working scale.
- 11:14Tactic six, build your own mini software
- 11:16tools. And if you don't want a big CRM
- 11:18or SAS tool at all, that's also fine.
- 11:21You can have Cloud build you a much
- 11:22simpler version that's actually tailored
- 11:24to only the features you want. Say you
- 11:26just want to see your sales pipeline as
- 11:27a bar chart and then a dashboard of the
- 11:29leads you need to follow up with and
- 11:31nothing else. All you need to do is
- 11:32describe exactly that hand claw or one
- 11:35of these skills as a reference of what a
- 11:36good version looks like and then it'll
- 11:38build a stripped down version right
- 11:40inside tools like notion, air table or
- 11:42even Google Sheets that's shaped
- 11:44specifically for the use case you're
- 11:45looking for. I personally tested three
- 11:47different task tracking tools that
- 11:49integrated with AI, but honestly I found
- 11:51that all of the tools had way too many
- 11:53features that I would never really
- 11:54touch. So, I just told Claude the
- 11:56exactly the user experience that I was
- 11:58looking for. And then it just helped me
- 11:59build my own custom project and task
- 12:01management system in Notion, which by
- 12:03the way, I can just update through
- 12:04Cloud. So, I rarely ever even open
- 12:06Notion. And by the way, I made that
- 12:08Notion template completely free in the
- 12:10AI workflows academy. So, you can grab
- 12:12that at the link below. So, I was
- 12:14personally able to cancel some
- 12:15subscriptions. And maybe this is
- 12:17evidence for the SAS apocalypse. I don't
- 12:19know. But I'm saving money. So, in
- 12:21summary, you can adapt these skills to
- 12:22your tools or use them as a blueprint to
- 12:25build your own custom systems like I
- 12:27did. Tactic seven, chain your skills
- 12:28into one compound workflow. Each skill
- 12:31in this plugin is its own block. It does
- 12:33one specific job, but they don't have to
- 12:35sit there waiting on you to trigger the
- 12:37next one. Here's what this could look
- 12:38like. Say your cash flow snapshot runs
- 12:40every week. If it comes back down more
- 12:42than 10% from last month, that alone
- 12:44could kick off a workflow that checks in
- 12:46with your content and sales and sees
- 12:48what the performance is. Then a separate
- 12:50strategy skill can look at both of those
- 12:52outputs and then decide what's likely
- 12:54driving the drop. And instead of you
- 12:55digging through three different reports,
- 12:57it could just send you a short brief in
- 12:59Slack and say, "Here's the issue and
- 13:01here's what I would recommend doing
- 13:02about it." So notice what you didn't
- 13:04have to do. You didn't have to check the
- 13:05snapshot. You didn't have to go around
- 13:07clicking different dashboards and
- 13:08looking for your content and sales and
- 13:10trying to diagnose the problem. The
- 13:12repetitive work was done and then you
- 13:14just got a brief. This is where it gets
- 13:16really powerful. You're not the one
- 13:17triggering each workflow and reviewing
- 13:19all of the output anymore. The workflows
- 13:21can be connected and then you can show
- 13:23up when something's actually worth your
- 13:24attention. If there is something bigger
- 13:26to decide, like increasing your ad
- 13:28spend, that's exactly when your AI
- 13:30systems could then ping you and then
- 13:31wait for your judgment call. By the way,
- 13:33if you're thinking, "Wow, these
- 13:34workflows are great, but I'd rather have
- 13:35an AI team just save me the headache and
- 13:37come in and set this all up." That's
- 13:39exactly what we do at Elevate. We build
- 13:41out AI operating systems for small
- 13:43businesses. That includes building out
- 13:44your company's AI brain and building AI
- 13:47workflows that you fully own in just 14
- 13:49days. So, if you want to learn more
- 13:50about that, there's a link in the
- 13:52description. Tactic eight, trigger
- 13:53skills dynamically. There are three ways
- 13:55to trigger a skill. You can call it by
- 13:57name, like run my close skill. You can
- 13:59select it from your skill menu by typing
- 14:01in a slash and then navigating to your
- 14:03skill. Or you can just describe what
- 14:04you're trying to do. And if Cloud
- 14:06recognizes your request matches a skill
- 14:08you've built, it'll use it
- 14:10automatically. And that third one is the
- 14:11one that most people miss. Earlier when
- 14:13I was talking about my close skill that
- 14:15makes the whole system self-improve, I
- 14:17don't need to even remember that there
- 14:18is a skill called the close skill. I
- 14:20just say I'm wrapping up for the day and
- 14:22the whole thing runs. But we need to
- 14:24make sure Claude has clear instructions
- 14:25on what each of these skills are. And
- 14:28that's why a good description of the
- 14:29skill itself is crucial for Claude to
- 14:32reliably select the right one. At the
- 14:34top of each skill here in the customize
- 14:36menu is where you write the description.
- 14:38It's the only part of the skill that
- 14:39Claude has context on across every chat.
- 14:41This is what it uses to route your
- 14:43prompt to the right skill. So, if you
- 14:45ever build your own skill later, spend
- 14:47the time to write a clear skill
- 14:48description that catches the key
- 14:50phrases, words, or scenarios in which
- 14:52you want that skill to activate. Trust
- 14:54me, it can get really messy if you don't
- 14:56do this, and especially if you start
- 14:58sharing skills across a team. If it's
- 14:59not taken care of, you run the risk of
- 15:01not really knowing how work is getting
- 15:03done. Tactic nine, the call this skill
- 15:05can make you money today. This one's
- 15:06easy to overlook because it's not the
- 15:08flashiest skill in the plug-in, but it
- 15:10might be the fastest way to get money
- 15:12that's just sitting right in your
- 15:13business. When you notice that one of
- 15:15your deals may have just gone quiet,
- 15:16don't just make a mental note like most
- 15:18people do, because of course, there's
- 15:20always a lot to do. Run the callless
- 15:22skill right then while it's fresh. This
- 15:24skill has Claude pull the contact
- 15:25history for that specific deal, draft
- 15:27talking points based on exactly where
- 15:29things left off, and then automatically
- 15:31free up your calendar to make time for
- 15:33the meeting. So instead of a stalled
- 15:35deal just sitting there until you happen
- 15:36to remember it 3 weeks later, you've got
- 15:38a ready to go reason to just reach back
- 15:40out the same day that a deal went cold.
- 15:42Tactic 10: Route your scheduled output
- 15:45to where you already were. A scheduled
- 15:47task can just run skills on a timer so
- 15:49it gets done without waiting for you to
- 15:51trigger it. But most people stop right
- 15:53there and then just let the output sit
- 15:54in whatever tool waiting for someone to
- 15:56check it. So let's take it one step
- 15:58further. Point that output at the
- 15:59channel you already check every single
- 16:01day. things like Slack or Google Chat
- 16:03and then tag the specific person who
- 16:05actually needs to see it. It lands
- 16:07directly in front of the right person at
- 16:09the moment that it matters instead of
- 16:10sitting in an untouched tool that nobody
- 16:12really opens. Tactic 11, start small. I
- 16:15know it's tempting to just turn on every
- 16:17connector inside this plugin the moment
- 16:18you install it. But I promise that's not
- 16:20the best strategy. If you enable
- 16:22everything at once, you're probably just
- 16:24going to lose track of what's even
- 16:25running. Add connectors gradually as you
- 16:27figure out which workflows you actually
- 16:29want to hand off. Now, if it's just to
- 16:31experiment and see which of these skills
- 16:32is useful, then that's fine. But here
- 16:34are two things to keep in mind when you
- 16:36do this. First, remember tactic eight.
- 16:38Claude reads the skill descriptions to
- 16:39route your prompts to the correct skill.
- 16:41If you have several overlapping skills
- 16:43that do the same thing, you're not going
- 16:45to reliably trigger the one that you
- 16:47actually want. And second, each time you
- 16:49use skills within this plug-in, it's
- 16:51pulling data from your apps, and that
- 16:52runs up your token usage. Tokens and AI
- 16:55are just like credits that you cash in
- 16:57every time you run a prompt through
- 16:58Claude. And controlling your tools does
- 17:01use them up way faster than just regular
- 17:03chats with Claude. So, build up your
- 17:05library of active skills and connectors
- 17:07gradually. Tactic 12, set per action
- 17:09approval tier. Let's talk about how to
- 17:11put guard rails on what your AI is
- 17:13allowed to do. In the connectors menu,
- 17:15you can review all the permissions
- 17:16you're actually giving Claude for each
- 17:18app. So, say you've connected your own
- 17:19Shopify store with all your products
- 17:21there. You might not want Claude to
- 17:23accidentally make changes to your
- 17:24prices. Or maybe you do. I don't know.
- 17:26But the point is, you can specify
- 17:28whether Claude should ask for approval
- 17:29before an action block certain action so
- 17:31it doesn't even try. Or if something is
- 17:33reliable enough, just let Cloud do it
- 17:35without even asking you. That same idea
- 17:37applies to your calendar, your email,
- 17:39and any other tool that you connect.
- 17:40When in doubt, just start with more
- 17:42guard rails and then slowly open it up
- 17:44piece by piece as you build trust in
- 17:46whatever skills or connectors you're
- 17:48using. Tactic 13. Turn your own manual
- 17:50process into a custom skill. And I saved
- 17:52this one for last on purpose because I
- 17:54think it's the biggest one. The most
- 17:55useful skills are so custom, they're
- 17:57built just for you. Tune to exactly how
- 18:00you work and all your preferences. Now,
- 18:02building off of existing skills for
- 18:04inspiration is great, but a lot of the
- 18:06times there might not be a strong one
- 18:07that you can model off of. Well, here's
- 18:09a simple test for what should turn into
- 18:10a skill. If you catch yourself doing a
- 18:12specific workflow more than once a week,
- 18:14it's worth trying that out as a skill.
- 18:16Here's one of mine. and I call it the
- 18:18daily brief. And I bet that you have a
- 18:19similar morning workflow, but you might
- 18:21just need to take some time to write it
- 18:23down step by step. My daily brief checks
- 18:25my calendar, pulls my tasks, scans my
- 18:27inbox or team messages, and then hands
- 18:29me a short brief that includes my
- 18:31priorities, anything that's overdue, and
- 18:33then my mins. And the min section here
- 18:35is my favorite part, and I haven't seen
- 18:36anyone else put this in their workflow.
- 18:38In my personal experience, AI is great
- 18:40at handing me a pile of ideas, but it's
- 18:42so easy to just get lost on what to
- 18:44actually tactically do next. So, my
- 18:46briefs always end by pointing out at the
- 18:49next smallest actionable step to do
- 18:51right now, which of course I can go back
- 18:53and agree or disagree and then
- 18:54eventually get it to a place that I'm
- 18:56satisfied with. So, with skills and
- 18:57connectors, you're connecting tools to
- 18:59AI and teaching it how to do your work,
- 19:01but there's still a big missing piece of
- 19:03your AI setup. It's still not grounded
- 19:05in exactly who you are. It probably
- 19:06doesn't sound like you, and then the
- 19:08visuals that it'll create might not look
- 19:10like your brand. That's because it's
- 19:11missing your business context. This is
- 19:13the foundation that should power every
- 19:15single one of these workflows. I call
- 19:17that your company's AI brain. You might
- 19:19have heard people just call this your
- 19:20context, your second brain. We're still
- 19:22early in the AI wave, so there's a ton
- 19:24of names to really talk about the same
- 19:26concept. If you want to build one for
- 19:27your business, you're going to love the
- 19:29next video where I walk through exactly
- 19:30how you can do that and give you free
- 19:32templates. All right, I'll see you in
- 19:34the next
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