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What is a Skill?

A Skill is a ready-made ability you add to an AI so it does one job exactly the way you want — every single time.

For your business, it turns “the AI gave me something random” into “the AI does it our way, in seconds.”

The picture to hold in your head

A recipe card for a very fast cook.

Imagine hiring a talented cook who can make anything — but has never seen how your kitchen does it. Ask for “the usual” and you will get something different every night.

A Skill is the laminated recipe card you hand them: your ingredients, your steps, your plating. From that moment, “the usual” comes out the same way every time — and anyone on your team can order it.

Same idea as installing an app on your phone: the phone was always capable, the app makes one job instant.

Your messy notesemails, transcripts…Your AI+ the Skillthe recipe card it followsClean resultyour format, every time

What you actually get

No hype. Here is the deliverable.

A skill built on your real work

You send an example or two of the job done right — a proposal you were proud of, an email in your voice. The skill is tuned on those, not on generic samples.

Installed where your AI already lives

It drops into the AI assistant you already use (Claude and compatible tools). No new app to learn, no new login for your team.

Tested before you pay

You see it run on your real input before any money moves. Scope confirmed first, billed after — never the other way around.

Yours to keep

The skill is a file you own. If we disappear tomorrow, it keeps working.

Why you would want this

The problem it removes.

Stop re-explaining the same job

Today someone types the same three paragraphs of instructions into the AI every time — or worse, everyone types different ones. The skill is those instructions, perfected once, applied every time.

Stop getting a different result each time

Without a skill, the AI improvises. With one, the output lands in your format, your tone, your rules — whether it is run by you, your newest hire, or at 11pm on a Friday.

Start small without a project budget

This is the cheapest way to find out what AI can actually do for your business: ready-made skills from $29, or one built on your own work from $75 — hours of effort, not months.

Built on the tools you already trust

The same stack that runs this site, right now — not a slide, the actual production stack.

  • Next.js
  • Vercel
  • Supabase
  • Stripe
  • Claude by Anthropic
  • Gemini by Google
  • Sentry
products running in production on this site
4
steps in our flagship AI pipeline
17
AI models orchestrated in a single paid run
4

What it costs — real prices, on the page

Skills are the small, honest way in.

Every price below is the actual price. Clicking “Get this skill” sends a request — not a payment. You pay only after we agree, in writing, on exactly what the skill will do.

Ready-made

$29$39

Generic, role-based skills — tested, installable in minutes, delivered instantly after a one-time payment. Two are free to try. The fastest, cheapest way in.

Example — a meeting-notes-to-proposal skill that works with any template, today.

Browse the marketplace →

Custom skill

from $75

Built and tested on your real work — reference files, quality checks, and a revision pass included.

Example — Drafts a full client proposal from a call transcript, with your pricing table and tone built in.

Request a skill

Describe the job — if a ready-made skill already covers it, we will say so and save you money. This is a request, not a checkout — you pay nothing until the scope is confirmed.

Package deals

Buy the pieces together, pay less than the sum.

Starter

Teach your AI three tricks.

  • Three custom skills, built on your real work

$180

$225 separatelysave $45

Book a call about Starter

Connected

Give it hands, plus three tricks.

  • One MCP server (connects AI to your real tools)
  • Three custom skills

from $14,500

from $15,225 separatelysave $725

Book a call about Connected

Autopilot

Hands and a goal. The full loop.

  • One MCP server
  • One Agent built around a real workflow

from $27,000

from $30,000 separatelysave $3,000

Book a call about Autopilot

Bundle savings are computed against buying each piece separately at the same scope — big builds compared at the bottom of their range. Your exact number is fixed after one scoping call.

How the three fit together

Talk it through

Not sure a Skill is the right size?

Maybe your problem is bigger than one trick — or smaller than you think. Twenty minutes with a real engineer sorts it out: you leave knowing whether you need a Skill, something more, or nothing at all.

  • No jargon on the call, either.
  • No obligation.
  • A real engineer, not a closer.
What do you need built?
Rough budget
Timeline

A few quick questions so the call is useful from minute one. No slide deck, no obligation, a real engineer — not a closer. Prefer email? contact@synthiq.app.