AI skills

What is a skill? Explained in one minute.

Does this sound familiar?

Three sentences from people who live this every day. You may recognise yourself in one of them.

I have to get out of word copy and paste into a browser, the section that I want to change and have it done through the browser. Then copy it go back to my Word document. Very inefficient and wasteful of my time.
Word user in Microsoft's own support forum
We take what should be a few bullet points, turn it into some overly wordy bullshit with AI, then the recipient uses AI to turn that wordy bullshit back into a few bullet points.
Comment on Hacker News
Often what it produces sounds very AI regardless of the tone you request.
On Copilot in email, Microsoft support forum

This is not user error. The tool does not know how you work, and you tell it from scratch every time.

What it costs

41 %

of desk workers

received AI-written work from colleagues in the past month that looks like work but is not. Each one costs the recipient almost two hours of rework.

BetterUp Labs and Stanford in Harvard Business Review, September 2025, 1,150 respondents

10 %

use AI daily

while 45 percent use it at all. Mostly for summarising and finding ideas, rarely for the actual work.

Gallup, August 2025, 23,068 employees

95 %

of AI projects

in companies deliver nothing measurable. Not because the models are bad, but because they do not adapt to how people actually work.

MIT NANDA, State of AI in Business 2025

What changes

You write down once how you want a certain task done: in which steps, in which tone, with which pitfalls. A text file, nothing more.

Your AI tool reads it by itself as soon as the task comes up. You no longer add it every time.

If a result is not good once, you change the file. The correction holds from then on, instead of you typing it again tomorrow.

Today

The same notes, plus: as a protocol, please. Back comes a letter full of filler, an invented year and a decision that was none. So: shorter. No filler. Split it. Tomorrow the same again.

Afterwards

You pick the Protokoll instruction and paste the notes. Structure, tone and the rule to invent nothing live in the file. Usually usable the first time, and the mail straight after.

This is what an instruction looks like

Three lines from the instruction I write my own meeting minutes with:

Decisions first, then open points. No filler. Invent nothing: if something is missing, ask.

Rules like these are what we write down for your task in your session.

Where do we start?

I run an office or work for myself

Texts, protocols, reports. Everything that ends up on your desk again anyway.

  • A protocol from bullet points, always in the same structure
  • Texts that sound like you instead of like a machine
  • Reports following your pattern, not the AI's
Book: office

I build software

Almost right is the worst. Two thirds of developers spend more time correcting than they save (Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025).

  • Debugging that looks for the next case of the same kind before reporting success
  • Code review by your rules, not by the average of the internet
  • Setting up a workspace without a missing step
Book: development

I lead a team

Everyone works differently with AI, and nobody knows how well. The result lands unfiltered on everybody else.

  • The same quality, no matter who on the team asks
  • The knowledge stays when someone leaves
  • New people follow the same rules from day one
Book: leadership

Whichever you pick: the conversation is the same. You only choose what we talk about.

How it works

1

Step 1 of 3

Getting to know each other

30 min, free

You pick a time. In the conversation we find the one task where the effort pays off fastest, and check whether your tool can store instructions per task.

2

Step 2 of 3

Mail with the offer

automatic

One hour after the conversation you get a mail with the offer for the session together. Exactly one mail. If it does not fit, you do not have to do anything.

3

Step 3 of 3

The session together

60 to 90 min, €290 to €390 plus VAT

We set up your instruction together, on your real task. One task usually fits into 60 minutes (€290). If it needs more, up to 90 minutes are planned (€390), never more. At the end it works, and you know how to develop it further yourself. For companies and the self-employed.

What you have after the session

  • An instruction that works for your task, in your tool
  • You know how to improve it yourself when something does not fit
  • You can tell which task is worth doing next

Common questions

Michael Schiller

Who does this with you

I work this way every day. Meeting minutes, blog articles, debugging, bookkeeping, invoice checking. The instruction the excerpt above comes from is the one I use for every protocol myself. What I show you is not something I made up, it is something I ground down over months.

Pick a time

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