Running a small business or agency means wearing too many hats. Client calls, competitive research, weekly reports - there is always something eating into your billable hours. What if you could hand off the repetitive research and reporting to an AI agent?
Enter SKILL.md - a simple markdown-based framework where you describe a task, and an AI agent executes it. No coding. No complex integrations. Just describe what you need and let the agent work.
Here are three open-source SKILL.md tools built to automate the most time-consuming parts of agency life.
1. Sales Call Research
Before any sales call, you Google the prospect - their recent news, funding, leadership changes, tech stack. That is easily 30 minutes per call. The Sales Call Research skill does this automatically. Give it a company name, and it returns a structured brief with everything you need to walk into the call prepared. For an agency doing 10 discovery calls a week, that is 5 hours saved.
2. Competitor Battle Card
A prospect asks: Why you over Competitor X? You need a real answer, not a guess. The Competitor Battle Card tool researches any competitor and generates a structured comparison - strengths, weaknesses, pricing gaps, positioning angles. It turns hours of manual research into a 2-minute query. Ideal for solo founders and lean teams without a dedicated CI function.
3. Weekly Client Report (Agency Client Report)
Friday afternoon chaos: scrambling through Slack, email, and project tools to compile client status updates. The Weekly Client Report skill pulls project updates, metrics, and action items into a polished report automatically. One agency owner cut their reporting time from 3 hours to 15 minutes per client. That is an extra 11 hours per month for a 4-client roster.
These skills are open-source and free to use. If you need custom ones tailored to your workflow, check out my services:
Stop doing work a machine can handle. Start automating.
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