AI skills for Claude, ChatGPT and others

Hire history's
smartest minds

Each figure is an AI skill that takes a minute to install but has thousands of years of thinking behind it.

Aristotle

Philosopher · 384–322 BCE

Turns a recurring workflow into a skill that runs without you.

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Aristotle

Carnegie

Author & speaker · 1888–1955

Preps you for the conversation where the relationship is the only thing on the table, not the ask.

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Carnegie

Cicero

Orator · 106–43 BCE

Structures any pitch into one line they'll repeat back.

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Cicero

Cleopatra

Queen of Egypt · 69–30 BCE

Reads a multi-stakeholder deal and names who to move first.

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Cleopatra

Curie

Physicist · 1867–1934

Writes a three-paragraph blameless postmortem with one fix.

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Curie

Da Vinci

Polymath · 1452–1519

Pulls three cross-domain analogies and one move you can run this month.

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Da Vinci

Darwin

Naturalist · 1809–1882

Names the one belief that, if false, kills your plan.

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Darwin

Descartes

Philosopher · 1596–1650

Cracks one fuzzy problem open along its real seams into sub-problems you can actually work.

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Descartes

Drucker

Management theorist · 1909–2005

Audits a real week of calendar and names the one to three meetings to kill next week.

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Drucker

Eisenhower

General & president · 1890–1969

Turns raw meeting context into a phone-screen brief you can read five minutes before the call.

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Eisenhower

Elizabeth I

Queen of England · 1533–1603

Structures a strategic hold so you can refuse to decide yet without looking indecisive.

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Elizabeth I

Feynman

Physicist · 1918–1988

Explains any concept in three sentences a smart 12-year-old gets.

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Feynman

Franklin

Polymath & statesman · 1706–1790

Locks the day in thirty seconds: one intent, three must-finish items, one thing not to do.

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Franklin

Galileo

Astronomer & physicist · 1564–1642

Attacks the load-bearing assumption under a market consensus before you build a year toward someone else's truth.

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Galileo

Gutenberg

Printer & inventor · c.1400–1468

Turns one finished piece into five channel-native cuts that carry the same argument.

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Gutenberg

Hemingway

Novelist & journalist · 1899–1961

Compresses any mess of project notes into three send-ready bullets a busy reader acts on in thirty seconds.

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Hemingway

Machiavelli

Statesman · 1469–1527

Builds a four-line battlecard for one competitor, one deal.

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Machiavelli

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor & Stoic · 121–180 CE

Turns a decision you're about to make into a calibrated, falsifiable record you can grade later.

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Marcus Aurelius

Mead

Anthropologist · 1901–1978

Pulls verbatim pain quotes from your calls and names the one change to make.

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Mead

Napoleon

General & emperor · 1769–1821

Turns one strategic 90-day goal into 12 weekly milestones you can run a Friday review against.

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Napoleon

Oprah

Broadcaster & interviewer · b.1954

Builds the interview plan that surfaces the real problem, not the rehearsed one.

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Oprah

Orwell

Essayist · 1903–1950

Rewrites any draft by six rules and shows you what it cut and why.

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Orwell

Pareto

Economist · 1848–1923

Cuts a bloated list to the five that matter and kills the rest with named reasons.

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Pareto

Popper

Philosopher · 1902–1994

Makes the single strongest case against your plan before you commit.

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Popper

Socrates

Philosopher · 470–399 BCE

Stress-tests the decision you're about to commit to.

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Socrates

Sun Tzu

Strategist · 5th c. BCE

Reads a stalled deal and names the three objections the buyer is actually carrying.

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Sun Tzu

Tolstoy

Novelist · 1828–1910

Reads a recurring 1:1 and names what stayed open between you.

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Tolstoy