A friend of mine is running for office, so I built her campaign website.
What’s exciting about this is not so much that I built the website…but at the same time I built the system that lets me build the next one, with way less effort.
I had the whole process saved. The structure. The research flow. The page strategy. The prompts. The decision points. The stuff I’d otherwise forget the second I closed my laptop.
The site was for her. The system is mine to keep.
Do it once. Keep the system.
We do this all the time - spend hours collaborating in chat to get the perfect outcome -
-The onboarding email that actually gets people to respond.
-The listing description that makes the showings stack.
-The intake form that stops the endless back-and-forth.
-The client follow-up that keeps your shit from falling between the cracks.
It works. (yay! we’re friends again!)
You quit cursing your computer and you move on…
And then next month, the same task lands back on your desk and somehow you’re starting from scratch again. BOO.
✨ STEAL THIS — Turn it into a skill
Next time instead of wasting all that progress you made with Claude or ChatGPT I want you to this: -
Once the outcome is just how you like it type one more prompt and something like this:
When I ask for [x outcome - i.e. research for a campaign site] this is the exact result I want. Please turn this into a proper skill.
That’s it! The result you already worked for, made reusable into a skill file so you never coach it back to “good” again.
Stop rebuilding. Start reusing. One messy project becomes a repeatable process — one good output becomes an asset you actually own. This is how building a business alongside a corporate job becomes scalable.
Hit reply and ask me anything
Whatever you’re stuck on with AI right now — the thing you wish it could do, the question you’ve been a little embarrassed to ask — send it my way. I read every reply, and I answer.
~ Jamie