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Skill Forward publishes practical AI playbooks for the people who keep things running: owners, managers, freelancers, and small teams with real work to do. Each one walks you through setting up a real AI workflow step by step, often in a single afternoon, in plain language, with no code and no jargon.

Foundation
Everyone around you seems to have figured out AI. Here's your entry point.
Get one specific skill today, in under 15 minutes.
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Mastery
You've started with AI. The results are fine. They should be much better.
One workflow that changes your week. 30–60 minutes.
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You're past the tools and tutorials. Time to build something that actually runs.
A system that keeps running after you close the laptop. 1–3 hours.
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13 playbooks

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Local Business Growth

Your First AI Lead Machine

Set up an AI system that finds your next local customer — in the time it takes to finish your coffee.
Foundation 15 min
$7.99
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AI Writing

Set Up Claude in Your Brand Voice

Tired of AI content that sounds like everyone else's? Train Claude to sound exactly like you, once, in 15 minutes.
Foundation 15 min
$7.99
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AI Learning

Become Your Own AI Expert in 30 Days

In 30 days, you'll go from not knowing where to start to running your own AI tools — without writing a single line of code.
Foundation 30-day plan
$7.99
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Content Marketing

Build an AI Content Engine

Stop treating content creation like a full-time job. This is the AI system that runs it while you do everything else.
Mastery 45 min
$14.99
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Knowledge Management

Turn Your Company Docs into an AI Expert

Your best employee answers the same questions 40 times a week. This playbook teaches your company docs to do it instead.
Mastery 30 min
$14.99
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Document Automation

Why Your Business Needs DocGen

Your competitors are automating document generation. Here's how to get there without the $50K enterprise price tag.
Mastery 60 min
$14.99
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AI Adoption

Where Do I Even Start with AI?

Stop drowning in AI tutorials. This is a specific 90-day plan — what to build, what to learn, what to ignore entirely.
Mastery 90-day plan
$14.99
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Video Marketing

Master AI Video Marketing

One idea. Five formats. AI handles the editing, repurposing, and scheduling. You just show up once.
Mastery 45 min
$14.99
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Meeting Productivity

Cut Meeting Follow-ups from 3 Hours to 10 Minutes

You're spending three hours a week writing up what happened in your own meetings. This is how you reclaim them.
Mastery 45 min
$14.99
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Discoverability

Your Customers Are Searching with AI Now

Your customers aren't Googling anymore — they're asking ChatGPT. This playbook makes sure your name comes up.
Mastery 60–90 min
$14.99
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Sales Automation

MCP-Driven Outbound Pipeline

Build an outbound pipeline that researches prospects, writes the pitch, and handles follow-up — while you're doing the actual client work.
Expert 2 hours
$24.99
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Organizational AI

The Expertise Multiplication Framework

The companies winning with AI aren't the ones with the best tools. They're the ones who figured out how to multiply what their people already know.
Expert 2 hours
$24.99
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Market Research

Transform Claude into a Reddit Intelligence Engine

Your market is telling you exactly what they want on Reddit right now. This is the Claude setup that captures every word of it.
Expert 90 min
$24.99

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