Alright, listen up. This week I'm writing about three AI tools that I'm actually using in my day-to-day that I am telling my friends about.

This isn't sponsored. I'm not getting paid, but I'm actually using these tools, and they have drastically improved my work output. Here's everything you need to know.

Ai Tools

If you're not familiar, Claude Skills are basically a repeatable agent or automated workflow that follows a specific set of instructions every time.

So what does that mean and what can you do?

Look at your business and look for repeatable tasks that you do every week.

Think about those reports you generate every Friday or Monday, or the agendas you set, or simple things like that that take up a lot of your time.

For me, I use it at Bylders Retention Agency. Each week, our entire team spends hours generating reports to share with our clients.

No more.

Now they go into Claude on a shared team's account. They use the skill and they say, "Generate report for [client name]."

That's it. The report that gets generated taps into our data warehouse, where all of our client's data is living, uses our Claude Design brand book, and all the templates we've shared with it to execute perfect, consistent on-brand report ready to share with a client.

So what's this mean for your business as you're running a brand?

Think of Claude Skills as the perfect employee that does exactly what you say.

No longer do you need to log into Shopify, then Klaviyo, then check triple whale, then check your Facebook ads. This doesn't happen any more.

Instead, you use a Claude skill to go do all of that for you and deliver you all the data so that you can make smarter decisions and spend less time chasing the data.

Just one prompt. You can get all the information you need across all of your platforms delivered to you exactly how you want it.

If you haven't started dabbling with Claude skills, I would put that at the very top of your priority list for this week.

I post a lot on LinkedIn, and I've built an incredible community over there.

And almost all of my posts are written posts, telling stories and sharing things I'm learning.

But I've always wanted to crack video. I just haven't had the time or resources to really invest in it.

And this is where I'm using HeyGen. I created an AI avatar of myself, and then I use my written post to drop in there and create complementary videos.

The AI avatars aren't perfect yet, but they do use my voice. They do look like me, and I would say they are about 80% of the way there.

Most of the posts that I'm writing now, I'm including a video of me as my AI avatar to support it, and it seems like we're reaching more people by doing this!

ps - I wrote this entire post using Wispr Flow and barely touched my keyboard.

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