Bonus 1 · 2 hours · Optional
Skills Deep-Dive
The unglamorous time-savers that compound.
By the end of tonight
- Auto-fill a proposal from site visit notes (in 5 min)
- Compare supplier price sheets — best price per material
- Weekly operations report — 2 min every Friday forever
Skills.
Specialized abilities Claude pulls in to handle structured file work — Word docs, Excel sheets, PDFs, slide decks.
You don't pick the Skill manually. You ask for the output. Claude picks the right one.
The four you'll use most
DOCX
Reads and writes Word docs. Fills templates with [BRACKETS].
XLSX
Parses spreadsheets, builds new ones, runs analysis.
PDF
Reads PDFs (including scanned with OCR), generates new ones.
PPTX
Builds PowerPoint decks if you ever need one.
Workflow 1
Auto-fill a proposal from site visit notes.
Talk for 60 seconds. Get a draft proposal. The workflow you'll use after every site visit forever.
Demo · notes in, proposal out
Workflow 2
Compare supplier price sheets.
Drop their PDFs in. Get a clean comparison spreadsheet. Highlight the cheapest per material.
Demo · supplier comparison
Workflow 3 · every Friday
Weekly operations report.
From your calendar, sent emails, and Project notes — a 1-page exec summary of your week. Generated in 2 minutes.
5 min Friday
= 1 week back per year.
The unglamorous time-savers compound fastest.
More to try
- Customer testimonial collector — happy email → 1-sentence testimonial
- Invoice generator from a template
- Job photo album → before/after PDF
- Permit application — fill from job info
- Customer thank-you letter generator
- Quarterly financial summary from QuickBooks export
Anytime you do repetitive paperwork — pause.
Could Claude fill this from notes?
Almost always: yes.
This week
Which of the three are you doing every week from now on?
Pick one. Specific commitment.