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Finance

Know Your Cash Position 90 Days Out

cash-flow-snapshot

Stop finding out your cash is tight when it's already too late. Learn how the cash-flow-snapshot skill gives small busin...

⏱ 3-5 hours/week QuickBooks, PayPal, Square
Finance

Stop Chasing Late Payments — Let AI Do It

invoice-chase

Chasing overdue invoices is one of the biggest time drains for small business owners. Discover how the invoice-chase ski...

⏱ 2-4 hours/week QuickBooks, PayPal, Stripe
Finance

Find Out Which Products Are Actually Making You Money

margin-analyzer

Revenue isn't profit. The margin-analyzer skill pulls your QuickBooks data, nets payment fees, and shows you exactly whi...

⏱ 2-3 hours/month QuickBooks, PayPal, CSV upload
Finance

Close Your Books in Minutes, Not Hours

month-end-prep

Month-end reconciliation doesn't have to take a whole afternoon. The month-end-prep skill reconciles your QuickBooks boo...

⏱ 3-6 hours/month QuickBooks, PayPal, Stripe
Finance

Never Scramble for Tax Documents Again

tax-season-organizer

Tax season doesn't have to be a crisis. The tax-season-organizer skill pulls income and expenses from QuickBooks, PayPal...

⏱ 8-12 hours/year QuickBooks, PayPal, Stripe
Finance

Never Miss Payroll Again

plan-payroll

Payroll is the most important payment you make every month. The plan-payroll skill checks your cash position, forecasts ...

⏱ 2-3 hours/month QuickBooks, PayPal, Gmail
Finance

See Cash Crunches Coming Before They Hit

month-heads-up

The month-heads-up skill gives you a week-by-week cash map for the next 30, 60, or 90 days — flagging exactly which week...

⏱ 2-3 hours/week QuickBooks, PayPal
Finance

Your Month-End Close, Done While You Sleep

close-month

The close-month skill reconciles your QuickBooks books against PayPal and Square, surfaces every mismatch for your revie...

⏱ 3-5 hours/month QuickBooks, PayPal, Square
Finance

Are You Leaving Money on the Table?

price-check

Most small business owners haven't raised prices in years. The price-check skill maps your margins, runs three pricing s...

⏱ 2-4 hours/quarter QuickBooks, PayPal
Finance

Hand Your Accountant a Clean Package This Year

tax-prep

The tax-prep skill tallies your income and expenses, identifies every 1099 contractor, and assembles a clean handoff bun...

⏱ 6-10 hours/year QuickBooks, PayPal, Stripe
Sales

Follow Up With Your Best Leads Before They Go Cold

lead-triage

Speed-to-lead wins deals. The lead-triage skill scores every HubSpot lead by engagement, urgency, and fit — then surface...

⏱ 3-5 hours/week HubSpot, Gmail, Google Calendar
Sales

Always Know Exactly Who to Call Today

call-list

Decision fatigue kills follow-up. The call-list skill removes the guesswork — scoring your leads, picking the five hotte...

⏱ 1-2 hours/day HubSpot, Gmail, Google Calendar
Sales

Turn Sales Data Into a Two-Week Action Plan

sales-brief

The sales-brief skill reads your top and bottom sellers from QuickBooks, identifies what's worth promoting, and builds a...

⏱ 2-3 hours/month QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot
Marketing

Build a Month of Content From Your Sales Data

content-strategy

Stop guessing what to post. The content-strategy skill reads your top and bottom sellers, identifies what's worth promot...

⏱ 3-4 hours/month QuickBooks, PayPal, Square
Marketing

From Content Brief to On-Brand Post in Minutes

canva-creator

The canva-creator skill takes your content brief, builds a posting calendar, writes every caption, generates on-brand vi...

⏱ 4-6 hours/month Canva, HubSpot
Marketing

Run Your Next Promo Without the Scramble

run-campaign

The run-campaign skill reads your sales data to find what's worth promoting, writes the campaign brief and captions, bui...

⏱ 3-5 hours/campaign HubSpot, Canva, QuickBooks
Customer Service

Find Out What Your Customers Are Really Saying

customer-pulse

The customer-pulse skill pulls together tickets, disputes, refunds, and email sentiment — finds the recurring themes — a...

⏱ 2-3 hours/week PayPal, HubSpot, Gmail
Customer Service

Answer Support Tickets Without Writing a Single Reply

ticket-deflector

The ticket-deflector skill reads the incoming ticket, pulls the customer's order and refund status from PayPal, drafts a...

⏱ 3-5 hours/week PayPal, HubSpot
Customer Service

Spot Customer Problems Before They Escalate

customer-pulse-check

The customer-pulse-check skill gathers feedback from tickets, disputes, and email threads, identifies recurring themes, ...

⏱ 2-4 hours/week PayPal, HubSpot, Gmail
Customer Service

Turn Angry Customers Into Loyal Ones

handle-complaint

An angry customer handled well is often a loyal customer for life. The handle-complaint skill pulls the order context, d...

⏱ 1-2 hours/week Gmail, PayPal
Operations

Keep Your CRM Clean Without Lifting a Finger

crm-maintenance

A CRM is only as valuable as the data in it. The crm-maintenance skill updates contacts and deals, logs every call and e...

⏱ 2-3 hours/week HubSpot, Gmail, Google Calendar
Operations

Fix Your Messy CRM Once and For All

crm-cleanup

The crm-cleanup skill scans your entire HubSpot database for stale deals, duplicate contacts, and missing fields — then ...

⏱ 4-8 hours (one-time) HubSpot
Operations

Know What You're Signing Before You Sign It

contract-review

The contract-review skill reads your contract clause by clause, rates every risk high, medium, or low, and produces a re...

⏱ 1-3 hours/contract DocuSign, Gmail
Operations

Stop Guessing What's in Your Contracts

review-contract

Upload any contract and the review-contract skill reads it clause by clause, rates every risk, and produces a marked-up ...

⏱ 1-2 hours/contract DocuSign, Gmail
Operations

Hire Faster With AI-Written Job Posts and Interview Kits

job-post-builder

The job-post-builder skill takes your role brief and writes a polished job post, a structured interview guide with scori...

⏱ 3-5 hours/hire Gmail
Business Intelligence

One Morning Briefing. Your Whole Business at a Glance.

business-pulse

The business-pulse skill pulls your cash position, sales trend, pipeline movement, and today's commitments into a single...

⏱ 1-2 hours/day QuickBooks, HubSpot, Google Calendar
Business Intelligence

Start Every Week Knowing Exactly What Matters

monday-brief

The monday-brief skill pulls your cash, pipeline, and week's commitments every Monday morning — surfaces what changed ov...

⏱ 1-2 hours/week QuickBooks, HubSpot, Google Calendar
Business Intelligence

End Every Week With a Clear Picture of Performance

friday-brief

The friday-brief skill compares this week's revenue to last week's, logs the wins, flags what to watch, and posts the re...

⏱ 1-2 hours/week PayPal, HubSpot, Slack
Business Intelligence

A Board-Ready Quarterly Review in Under an Hour

quarterly-review

The quarterly-review skill pulls the full quarter's financials from QuickBooks and PayPal, reads your HubSpot pipeline h...

⏱ 4-8 hours/quarter QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot
Business Intelligence

Tell Claude What You Need — It Finds the Right Skill

smb-router

Not sure which of the 30 skills to use? The smb-router skill reads your request in plain English, identifies what you ac...

⏱ Variable All connectors

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