Section 06
The Three Skills
Three custom skills you choose. Each one solves a specific problem, produces a specific report, or communicates a specific message — repeatedly, in your voice. Nine examples below across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Admin, and Management — they're starting points, not a constraint.
The focus is on three skills, chosen by you, that each solve something specific in your business. A skill should do one of three things, repeatedly and reliably:
- Solve a specific problem you keep running into — institutional memory you can't find fast enough, comms drift you can't catch in time, decisions you'd want pressure-tested before committing.
- Produce a specific report on a regular cadence — a weekly distillation of team performance, a fortnightly competitor digest, a monthly cashflow signal report.
- Communicate a specific message you want repeated — your founder voice on LinkedIn, your proposal-writing style, your follow-up email cadence.
The nine examples below — drawn from the Anaboo skills library (79+ skills total) — span the six business areas where founders typically feel the most leverage. Your three skills don't have to come from this list. If you've got a workflow in mind, bring it to the scoping call and we'll build that instead.
How we build with you
For each of your three skills we build it on screen-share with you watching. You see how the data layer is structured, the context is captured, and the intent prompts are written. You get every prompt — copy/paste/save — so you can replicate the pattern for the next skill yourself, or brief someone else to. No black box. No magic. Just craft, written down.
1
Lead Qualifier & Pre-Call Brief
"Inbound lead lands. Two minutes later you've got a qualification scorecard and a pre-call brief in your inbox."
Trained on your ideal customer profile, your past won/lost deals, and your sales playbook. When a new lead arrives — via web form, email, or referral — the agent enriches the company, scores against your ICP, flags red and green signals, and drafts a one-page pre-call brief with three suggested discovery questions in your voice. You walk into every sales call already up to speed.
Common data inputs: CRM, email history, past proposals, ICP doc · Best for: founders who still take inbound sales calls and want to stop preparing from scratch every time.
2
Proposal & Quote Drafter — In Your Voice
"Discovery notes go in. First-draft proposal, in your voice, in your structure, comes out."
Trained on your past winning proposals, your pricing logic, your standard scope/inclusions, and your contract boilerplate. You hand the agent your discovery notes (or a Fireflies transcript) and it drafts a complete proposal — exec summary, scope, deliverables, timeline, pricing, T&Cs — in your voice and your house format. You spend the time editing and signing off, not staring at a blank page.
Common data inputs: past proposals, pricing matrix, scoping templates, brand voice doc · Best for: founders who personally write proposals and lose half a day every time.
3
LinkedIn & Content Drafter — In Your Voice
"The thought-leadership post you've been meaning to write all week, drafted in 5 minutes, ready for your edit."
Trained on your historical LinkedIn voice, your brand register, and your view of the industry. Drafts LinkedIn posts, articles, newsletter sections, and short video scripts on themes you care about — customer wins, lessons learned, industry takes, founder reflections. Every draft watermarked "DRAFT" — never auto-posts. The founder-brand compounds while you're doing other work.
Common data inputs: past LinkedIn posts, brand voice doc, customer-story bank · Best for: founders who know they should be more visible but never find an hour to do it.
4
Customer & Market Watch
"Continuous monitoring of competitors, regulations, and customer signals — summarised weekly into a 1-page digest."
Continuous scanner of your top 10–20 competitors, the regulators that matter to you, and the customer-signal sources your industry watches (review sites, key forums, trade press). Pulls what's changed each week — pricing moves, new entrants, regulatory shifts, customer-sentiment swings — and drops a one-page digest in your inbox every Monday. You walk into the week already in front of the team.
Common data inputs: competitor URLs, regulator feeds, review platforms, internal customer-feedback notes · Best for: founders in markets that move faster than their team can track.
5
SOP & Knowledge Brain
"Every SOP, every supplier, every contract, every decision history — searchable on your phone in 10 seconds."
A private knowledge brain trained on the documents that hold the institutional memory of your business: SOPs, supplier contracts, customer agreements, training materials, decision logs, key email threads, the operating playbook. Lives on your phone and in a private chat interface. "What's the procedure for a supplier dispute?" · "Which vendor handles overflow on the south coast?" · "What did we agree with X in 2022?" Returns the answer with citations.
Common data inputs: SOP library, supplier contracts, decision logs, email archive · Best for: founders who are the institutional memory and want to stop being the institutional bottleneck.
6
Supplier & Vendor Email Handler
"The 30 supplier emails a week that you write — drafted, classified, queued for your one-click sign-off."
Trained on your historical supplier comms (tone, structure, escalation patterns), your contract terms, and your vendor list. Reads incoming supplier email, drafts the reply in your voice, classifies it (routine / needs-decision / escalate), and queues it for your one-click sign-off. The drafts that need a real decision get flagged with a 30-second summary.
Common data inputs: past supplier email threads, supplier contracts, escalation playbook · Best for: founders who are still the central node for vendor relationships.
7
Cashflow & Numbers Distiller
"Your weekly numbers — distilled, anomalies flagged, your three follow-up questions to the bookkeeper drafted."
An agent that ingests your live numbers from Xero / QuickBooks / Stripe / your bank, plus your weekly P&L and cashflow forecast, and produces a one-page Monday-morning distillation: cash position, anomalies vs forecast, slow-paying customers, supplier exposure, three follow-up questions for your bookkeeper or finance lead drafted in your voice. The financial anxiety eases because the picture is always one click away.
Common data inputs: Xero / accounting platform, bank feeds, Stripe, weekly P&L · Best for: founders who feel financial anxiety despite the business being profitable.
8
Weekly Team Distiller
"Your team's weekly reports — distilled into one page, anomalies flagged, your follow-up questions drafted."
An agent that ingests the routine reporting from your team — operational updates, sales pipeline, finance summary, project status — and produces a one-page distillation: what changed, what's anomalous, what needs your attention, three crisp follow-up questions drafted in your voice ready for the catch-up. Saves the half-hour of scanning and the half-day of email ping-pong.
Common data inputs: team weekly reports, project trackers, CRM, finance summary · Best for: founders who get more reports than they can read.
9
AI Board of Directors — for the big calls
"Convene 13 AI directors to debate a proposal in your voice. Get a structured argument-and-counterargument before you commit."
Anaboo's Board skill convenes a panel of 13 AI directors (Strategy, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Risk, Legal, HR, Customer, Tech, etc.) to debate a proposal you put in front of them — chaired by a Kerry Packer-style straight-talker. You get back a structured transcript, a points-for / points-against summary, and a recommended decision. Designed for the calls that have been sitting on your desk too long.
Best for: pressure-testing the big calls — pricing changes, new market entry, restructuring, hiring senior, exit-planning conversations.
Worked combinations — for sparking thinking
To show how the examples fit together, four combos that land for different founder shapes. Illustrative, not prescriptive.
| Possible shape | Three skills | What it's solving |
|---|
| "Founder still in sales" | Lead Qualifier · Proposal Drafter · LinkedIn Drafter | For the founder still personally selling and trying to grow the founder-brand. Pipeline + closing + visibility. |
| "Step back, stay sharp" | SOP Brain · Weekly Team Distiller · AI Board | For the founder who's handed off to a leadership team and wants oversight without overhead. |
| "Founder brand, market ready" | SOP Brain · LinkedIn Drafter · Market Watch | One from Ops, one from Marketing, one from Marketing/Intel. Memory + visibility + intelligence. |
| "CFO-mind founder" | Cashflow Distiller · Weekly Distiller · Supplier Handler | For the founder who runs the business by the numbers. |
"You don't adapt your business to the software. We adapt the skills to your business — starting with the workflows that hurt the most."
— Brett Alegre-Wood, Founder, Anaboo AI
