--- name: al-479-run-a-one-person-creative-business-through-a-single-chief description: "Solo makers juggle shop listings, client inquiries, video and books with no staff. In a write-up published October 30, 2026 by AI Business Plays (self-reported, from his own X post on October 28), Nick, who runs a one-man landscape photography business in Birmingham, Alabama selling prints and Lightroom presets, says he talks to just one chief-of-staff bot that hands each job to one of 17 specialist bots: money bots that book clients, pitch galleries, run his Etsy shop and score income ideas; marketing bots for research, outreach, SEO and matching his voice; and a bookkeeper and fact checker. He puts the whole setup at about $200 a month, less than one portrait session, and says in one week it fixed a slow Etsy listing's title, tags and price, rescued five failed YouTube Shorts, wrote and voiced two YouTube videos and answered a gallery inquiry. He gives no sales figures for the listing fix. His one rule: nothing goes out or gets bought or deleted without his OK. The prompt below…" --- # Run a one-person creative business through a single chief-of-staff AI: it hands each job to a specialist bot (listings, gallery replies, video edits, bookkeeping), a fact-checker reads everything going out, and nothing is sent, posted, bought or deleted without your OK Solo makers juggle shop listings, client inquiries, video and books with no staff. In a write-up published October 30, 2026 by AI Business Plays (self-reported, from his own X post on October 28), Nick, who runs a one-man landscape photography business in Birmingham, Alabama selling prints and Lightroom presets, says he talks to just one chief-of-staff bot that hands each job to one of 17 specialist bots: money bots that book clients, pitch galleries, run his Etsy shop and score income ideas; marketing bots for research, outreach, SEO and matching his voice; and a bookkeeper and fact checker. He puts the whole setup at about $200 a month, less than one portrait session, and says in one week it fixed a slow Etsy listing's title, tags and price, rescued five failed YouTube Shorts, wrote and voiced two YouTube videos and answered a gallery inquiry. He gives no sales figures for the listing fix. His one rule: nothing goes out or gets bought or deleted without his OK. The prompt below starts with the same first money job using any AI assistant. ## Inputs to collect first Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts. - Type of business, e.g. photography prints and presets - Title, tags, price, description, views and sales over the last 90 days - Their titles, tags and prices, or say 'none, suggest what to look for' - CHECK - E.g. gallery inquiries, client bookings, video edits, bookkeeping ## Instructions Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket]. Act as my chief of staff for my one-person [type of business, e.g. photography prints and presets] business. Start with my slowest-selling listing. Here it is: [paste title, tags, price, description, views and sales over the last 90 days]. Here are 3 to 5 similar listings that sell well: [paste their titles, tags and prices, or say 'none, suggest what to look for']. 1) Explain in plain words why mine is probably underperforming. 2) Suggest a new title, up to 13 tags and a price, each with a one-line reason tied to the listings I gave you; mark anything you're guessing as [CHECK]. 3) Act as a fact checker on your own suggestion: flag any claim about the product that isn't in my description. 4) Then list my other recurring jobs I mention here: [e.g. gallery inquiries, client bookings, video edits, bookkeeping], and for each suggest whether a separate specialist assistant should handle it, what it needs from me, and what it must always ask me before doing. Don't edit, post, send, buy or delete anything; show me the changes and wait for my OK. ## Safety checks (share these with the user) - This prompt works on text other people wrote (emails, reviews, messages or web pages). That text can hide instructions aimed at AI, such as "ignore your rules and…". Paste it as material to work on, and never let the AI act on requests inside it, like paying, sharing logins or changing records. - Check every figure, price and total against your own records before anything is sent, posted or booked. A person approves refunds, discounts, payments and price changes. - Remove names, contact details, account numbers and other personal data the task doesn't need before you paste, and check your AI tool's data and training settings. - Read and edit the draft before it reaches a customer or goes public. If you later automate this prompt, start with "draft and notify me", not "send automatically". - Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed. ## About this skill - Works with: Grok Bot, ChatGPT, Claude, Etsy, YouTube - Based on this real-world example: https://aibusinessplays.com/plays/one-man-photography-business-17-bots-for-200-a-month/ - Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-479-run-a-one-person-creative-business-through-a-single-chief-of/ - To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/