AI in Action
I explore practical, easy to implement AI use-cases for business owners and operators that go beyond the buzz words.
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Don’t create a Skill for everything in Claude (opens the original)
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Last week I built a Claude skill to screen board packs before my upcoming board meetings. The idea was to create a structured checklist of items to analyse in a new board pack: Have prior decisions been actioned and followed through? Which action items are overdue, repeatedly deferred, or been dropped? What is the financial snapshot compared to previous meetings?You get the idea.Claude got to work. It quickly spun up a structure, ran test cases based on a synthetic company with planted red flags
The One File That Stops Claude From Forgetting Who You Are (Claude.md easy setup guide) (opens the original)
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When I first started with Claude, I was doing it all wrong. But then again, we probably all were, given the novelty of AI. Thinking back I was doing what I thought was just the standard process, typing a prompt. The more sophisticated I became the longer my prompts. A super long elaborate prompt I thought was the result of me becoming a better AI user. I want to say that was partly true, given the time I invested into AI. But times have changed. Today good AI operates as a system, not single con
I Overcomplicated My Claude Setup For Months. Here’s The 20-Minute Version That Actually Works. (opens the original)
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I’ve built custom Claude skills for equity research, PE due diligence, Buffett-style stock screens. Multi-step workflows, PDF generation, the works.And it took me embarrassingly long to realize I hadn’t set up the basics.Turns out the fancy stuff is not where the leverage is. The leverage is in four boring settings most people never open.Here’s what’s actually worth your time.Thanks for reading AI in Action! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and supp
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