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Each skill teaches your AI to do one job well, the way a good coach or friend would. Try the free scam check right here.
The skills
A skill is a short set of instructions your AI follows, with the checklists and examples it needs. Add it once and it stays. Tested in Claude, with setup steps for ChatGPT and Gemini included. Every skill is retested each month.
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Five skills, $5 each
* Planning a bigger trip over weeks? TripDeputy is the Pro version: send it links and ideas as you go, and it builds the plan, the packing list and booking reminders.
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Free in your browser
The original tools, still free: each one runs on this site and builds a request you paste into any AI. The skills above do the work inside your AI instead.
New to AI, start here
Tell it what you want in plain words and it writes the request for you. No account, no jargon.
Work
Fix a résumé bullet, draft a tailored cover letter, and rehearse interview answers.
Prep and rehearse a salary, rent, or bill conversation before you have it for real.
If you build
Catches vague build instructions before AI runs with them. Part of the spec-driven method I build with, in the open.
Finds book topics people search for but few authors have covered. A small tool you run on your own computer.
Everyday life
Paste the message that made you pause. Get a checklist of what to verify before you click, reply, or send anything.
Quietly shows who you're overdue to reach out to, so you stop losing people to a busy life. Private and offline.
Turn a few answers into a day-by-day itinerary tuned to your budget, pace, and taste.
A private, gentle space to think something through and steady yourself. Not therapy; a companion for the space between.
Field notes
Courses and the book
Work with me
The tools above are the portfolio. If you want to learn the method with your team, here are two ways in.
No pitch and no call required to start. Say what you're trying to do and I'll reply with whether I can help and what it would cost.
Who's Mick
I'm Mick Cairn. I build small tools that work and write about doing more with less, using AI, without the hype. Everything on this page is something I actually made and use.
If the tools are good, that's the credential. If they're not, no bio would fix it.
Pro-AI, anti-nonsense, on your side against the people selling you complexity, and beside you when it all feels like too much.
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