Your First Five AI Skills

Key takeaways

Four skills each do one job: inbox triage, after the call, lead follow-up and weekly review.
Blitz ties them into one door: plan my week, start my day, work the queue, or just capacity.
Open always means a task exists, so nothing you owe lives only in your inbox.
Every skill drafts first; you approve until you have watched it work for a few weeks.

You could build a hundred skills. Start with five.

These are the five I'd give any owner once their email, calendar, call notes and task list are connected. Four of them each do one job. The fifth ties them together into one routine, so you're not remembering five commands.

All five are in the AI OS Starter Kit, ready to install. If you're new to skills, read what skills are and how to make them first.

 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │ 5 BLITZ  one door: plan my week · start my day · work queue  │
 └───────┬──────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬───────┘
         │              │               │               │
 ┌───────▼──────┐ ┌─────▼───────┐ ┌─────▼───────┐ ┌─────▼───────┐
 │ 1 INBOX      │ │ 2 AFTER THE │ │ 3 LEAD      │ │ 4 WEEKLY    │
 │   TRIAGE     │ │   CALL      │ │   FOLLOW-UP │ │   REVIEW    │
 │ every email  │ │ notes into  │ │ everyone who│ │ your numbers│
 │ gets a state │ │ summary +   │ │ didn't book │ │ what closed,│
 │ and a task   │ │ tasks       │ │ hears back  │ │ what slipped│
 └──────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘

1. Inbox triage

Most inboxes fail the same way: everything sits in one pile, and "read" gets confused with "done". This skill gives every email one of four states.

  NEW ──────▶ OPEN        you owe them something. A task exists.
      ├─────▶ PENDING     you're waiting on them. Chase in 3 business days.
      └─────▶ RESOLVED    nothing owed. Archived.

New is the only thing left in your inbox. Everything else gets filed under a label: 01 Open, 02 Pending, 03 Resolved.
Open always means there's a task. The skill creates it in your task manager with a due date, so nothing you owe lives only in your inbox.
It goes one email at a time. For each one it tells you who it's from and what they want, then recommends a state and a next step. You click, it files.
Replies are drafts. It never sends.

Inbox zero, done right: not "nothing left". Every thread is either resolved, or open or pending with a live task.

2. After the call

This is the one that changes how your day feels. Right after a call, it reads your Fathom recording or your Wispr Flow meeting notes and gives you:

A summary in five lines: who, what was decided, what's next.
Action items, split into what you committed to and what they committed to, each with a due date (or "no date said").
Tasks in your task manager (ClickUp, Trello, Asana, Notion, or a simple list on your own server), once you approve the list.
The follow-up email, drafted in your voice from what was actually said.

Nothing you promised on a call gets lost, and the follow-up goes out while the call is still fresh.

3. Lead follow-up

Most service businesses lose more money here than anywhere else. Someone fills out your form or calls, doesn't book, and never hears from you again.

Every morning this skill lists everyone who came in and didn't book, then drafts a short, personal follow-up for each one: an answer to what they asked, and your booking link. Three touches at most, then it stops. You approve every message before it goes.

4. Weekly review

Once a week, one page. Your three numbers against last week (booked calls, new leads, cash collected, whatever matters to you), what closed, what slipped, and one decision you need to make.

Every number says where it came from. If something's missing, it says so instead of guessing. This is what the planning part of Blitz reads before it plans your week.

5. Blitz: the one door

This is my own daily driver, simplified for you. Instead of remembering four skills, you say "blitz" and pick from a short menu:

                          "blitz"
                             │
    ┌──────────────┬─────────┴────────┬──────────────────┐
    ▼              ▼                  ▼                  ▼
 PLAN MY WEEK   START MY DAY      WORK THE QUEUE    JUST CAPACITY
 review, then   triage inbox,     one task at a     "can I take
 hours free vs  leads, pick       time, with a      this on this
 hours booked   today's 3 things  recommendation    week?"

Plan my week runs the weekly review, then works out your real capacity: hours you actually have, minus what's already booked. If something doesn't fit, it tells you what it would push out. No silent overcommitting.
Start my day triages the inbox to zero, follows up with every lead who didn't book, and picks the three things that matter today.
Work the queue walks your tasks one at a time. For each one it reads the context, recommends what to do, and does the parts it can once you say go.
Just capacity answers the mid-week question before you say yes to something.

The rule for Blitz, and the one I'd copy: it never dumps a list and asks "what do you want to do?" It reads each item, recommends, and waits for your call.

Your routine

Once these are installed, the whole week runs on four sentences:

Your week on four sentences

When	You say
Sunday night	"Blitz, plan my week."
Every morning	"Blitz, start my day."
After every call	"Process my last call."
Any gap	"Blitz, work the queue."

Four sentences run the whole week once the five skills are in.

Before you install them

The skills are only as good as what they can reach. Connect these first:

Email and calendar. Gmail and Google Calendar.
Call notes. Fathom for video calls, Wispr Flow for phone calls and in-person meetings.
Your task manager. If yours has a connector (ClickUp, Asana, Notion, Trello and others do), connect it. If not, the skills keep a task list on your own server.
Where leads come in. Your website form, your CRM, or an inbox label.

Then make them yours, or book a consulting call and set them up with me. The first week, run each one with you watching and correct it every time it's off. Say "update the skill" and the fix sticks.

The rule for all five

They draft. You approve. Nothing sends, posts, pays or deletes on its own until you've watched it do the job right for a few weeks and decided to let it.

The point is trust: you build it in a system the same way you'd build it in a new hire.

The short version

Four skills do one job each: triage, after the call, lead follow-up, weekly review.
Blitz ties them into one door, so your week runs on four sentences.
Every skill drafts first. You approve until you trust it.

This is part 5 of the AI from 0 to 1 series. The full SKILL.md files, the setup steps and the 30-day plan are in the AI OS Starter Kit.

Questions people ask

Which AI skills should I set up first?

Inbox triage, after the call, lead follow-up and weekly review, plus Blitz to run them from one command.

What do I need to connect before installing them?

Email and calendar, your call recorder (Fathom or Wispr Flow), your task manager if it has a connector, and wherever your leads come in.

Will the skills send emails on their own?

No. They draft and you approve. Nothing sends, posts, pays or deletes on its own until you decide to let it.

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