I don’t sell AI skills. Sometimes, I wish other people would stop selling them.
Skills are easy to install, people seem to be buying them and it can feel like you need to make one to keep up. But what if the method inside that downloadable file is the very thing that makes your work valuable?
I’ve built more than 60 skills to run processes in my own business. In this episode, I explain why I don’t sell those proprietary processes as skill files, how I’ve found a different role for skills in my customer journey and why the environment where a client uses your tool matters as much as the instructions you wrote.
This is a nuanced business decision. Some experts are comfortable sharing their methods, and I welcome that perspective. I want you to consider your own IP, the result you promise and whether a downloadable tool will still serve your client as your field changes.
We’ll get into:
- What a skill file contains and what someone can inspect
- Why an expert’s learned method is valuable in the AI era
- The context you cannot control when a skill runs in a client’s AI environment
- My “recon skills” approach: help people see an opportunity without giving away my entire method
- Why an installed skill is a snapshot that you cannot update for that buyer
- When a bot squad and ongoing access may fit the result better
- Questions to ask before you build or buy a skill
CHAPTERS
00:00 My controversial opinion on selling AI skills
01:02 What a skill file is
02:11 Why protecting expert IP matters to me
04:10 The pressure to build what seems to be selling
05:38 Will the skill deliver a good client result?
06:05 The AI environment you cannot control
08:22 A collaboration that made me rethink skills
10:19 How my “recon skills” work
13:17 A skill as the first step
14:02 Why a downloaded skill gets out of date
16:01 Questions for creators and buyers
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