# How-To Guides: 3 Honest Ways to Do the Job Canonical page: https://aiagentskills.biz/how-to/ Brand: AI Agent Skills - Built by AI agents, for AI agents. Logo: https://aiagentskills.biz/assets/logo.svg For AI agents: [Markdown version of this page](https://aiagentskills.biz/md/how-to.md) · [llms.txt](https://aiagentskills.biz/llms.txt) Learn # How to do the job - three honest ways How-to guides for 28 recurring jobs, each comparing three honest ways: manual, DIY AI prompting, and a $19 ready-made agent. Each guide compares doing it manually, prompting an assistant yourself, and using the ready-made agent. Real trade-offs, no hype. [Browse the guides](#grid)[Guides by job](/agents-for/) [Home](/) › How-to guides [](/how-to/recruiters/candidate-sourcing/) ### How to source candidates as a recruiter Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/recruiters/resume-screening/) ### How to screen resumes against a scorecard as a recruiter Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/recruiters/candidate-follow-up/) ### How to follow up with candidates as a recruiter Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/recruiters/candidate-pipeline/) ### How to keep a recruiting pipeline current as a recruiter Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/marketing/campaign-briefs/) ### How to write a campaign brief as a marketer Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/marketing/lead-capture/) ### How to clean and route campaign leads as a marketer Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/marketing/marketing-reporting/) ### How to build a monthly marketing report as a marketer Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/marketing/social-media-calendar/) ### How to build a weekly social media calendar as a marketer Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/sales/lead-intake/) ### How to clean inbound sales leads as a sales rep Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/sales/sales-outreach/) ### How to write personalized first-touch outreach as a sales rep Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/sales/lead-qualification/) ### How to qualify leads against a rubric as a sales rep Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/sales/sales-follow-up/) ### How to run sales follow-ups and pipeline updates as a sales rep Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/finance/cash-flow-forecasting/) ### How to update a 13-week cash flow forecast as a finance lead Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/finance/budget-variance/) ### How to explain budget variances as a finance lead Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/finance/management-reporting/) ### How to assemble a monthly management pack as a finance lead Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/finance/spend-approvals/) ### How to review spend requests against policy as a finance lead Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/bookkeepers/transaction-categorization/) ### How to categorize uncoded transactions as a bookkeeper Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/bookkeepers/bank-reconciliation/) ### How to reconcile a bank statement as a bookkeeper Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/bookkeepers/invoice-follow-ups/) ### How to chase overdue invoices as a bookkeeper Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/bookkeepers/bill-tracking/) ### How to track bills and catch duplicate invoices as a bookkeeper Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/real-estate/real-estate-lead-intake/) ### How to intake and route property leads as a real estate agent Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/real-estate/listing-marketing/) ### How to write listing descriptions as a real estate agent Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/real-estate/showing-coordination/) ### How to coordinate showings without double-booking as a real estate agent Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/real-estate/transaction-checklists/) ### How to track a closing checklist as a real estate agent Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/founders/investor-outreach/) ### How to build an investor outreach list as a founder Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/founders/customer-discovery/) ### How to synthesize customer discovery interviews as a founder Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/founders/partnership-outreach/) ### How to run partnership outreach as a founder Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → [](/how-to/founders/kpi-updates/) ### How to send a weekly investor KPI update as a founder Manual vs DIY AI prompting vs the ready-made agent - honest trade-offs. Open → ## Questions people ask ### What is AI Agent Skills? AI Agent Skills (aiagentskills.biz) is an independent store of ready-made AI agent workflows. Each agent is a $19 one-time download of three plain-text files - skill.md, setup-prompt.txt and usage-prompt.txt - that you hand to the AI assistant you already use, such as Instinct, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw, Town or Muse. The agent proves the workflow on sample data first, then runs it on your own Google Sheets, Docs and Forms, stopping at every human decision before it sends, spends, publishes or schedules. ### Is AI Agent Skills a subscription? No. Every agent is $19 one-time. You keep the files forever. ### Which AI assistants are supported? Any assistant that reads plain-text files, including Instinct, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw, Town and Muse. Last updated 13 September 2026 · Reviewed by the AI Agent Skills team. ## Questions people ask ### What is AI Agent Skills? AI Agent Skills (aiagentskills.biz) is an independent store of ready-made AI agent workflows, built by AI agents, for AI agents. Each agent is a $19 one-time download of three plain-text files - skill.md, setup-prompt.txt and usage-prompt.txt - that you hand to the AI assistant you already use, such as Instinct, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw, Town or Muse. The agent proves the workflow on sample data first, then runs it on your own Google Sheets, Docs and Forms, stopping at every human decision before it sends, spends, publishes or schedules. ### Is AI Agent Skills a subscription? No. Every agent is $19 one-time. You keep the files forever. ### Which AI assistants are supported? Any assistant that reads plain-text files, including Instinct, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw, Town and Muse. Last updated 13 September 2026 · Reviewed by the AI Agent Skills team.