AI Savvy Founders. Resources

Guides, SOPs & Quick Starts

Everything you need to build it yourself.

Step-by-step setup guides, standard operating procedures, checklists, and quick references for founders building AI infrastructure into their business.

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SETUP GUIDE

30 things I'd install first in Claude

The complete beginner's setup guide for Claude. 7 skills, 8 MCPs, 8 plugins, and 7 built-in features, with step-by-step instructions for installing each one.

SETUP GUIDE

Build your content intel system

Set up a research-first content system in Claude that mines what works in your niche, then creates content across 4 platforms in your voice.

SETUP GUIDE

Claude-YouTube skill setup

Install a Claude Code skill that turns your terminal into a YouTube growth consultant, grounded in platform benchmarks and your channel's real data.

SETUP GUIDE

Create a voice skill from your own writing

A step-by-step voice extraction workflow: mine your own emails, blogs, and social posts for your real writing voice, then package it into a custom Claude skill.

SETUP GUIDE

How to create a Claude skill, step by step

A general step-by-step guide to creating a custom Claude skill: choosing the task, writing SKILL.md, structuring the folder, uploading, and testing.

SETUP GUIDE

How to create an icp.md file

Step-by-step guide to building an icp.md file: a single ideal customer profile document your AI reads before writing any marketing, sales, or content piece.

SETUP GUIDE

LinkedIn Lead Engine — setup & run guide

Connect Apify, build voice.md and icp.md, create the Project, and run repeatable batches that find, score, and draft outreach to LinkedIn leads.

SETUP GUIDE

Pro-level carousel design with Claude

Step-by-step guide to designing on-brand Instagram carousels using Claude Code. Set up your brand system, generate slides, and post in minutes.

SETUP GUIDE

Winning email copy — free Claude skill

A free Claude skill that turns what you're selling into a story-driven email. Install it in minutes and stop staring at a blank screen.

SOP

AI sales call prep

Walk into every discovery call already knowing your lead. Claude pulls their CRM record, researches them online, and hands you a one-page call brief.

SOP

Competitor intelligence with Claude and Apify

Run full competitor teardowns and build lead lists using Claude connected to Apify. Connect the tool once, then get an intelligence brief in minutes.

SOP

Connect Composio to Claude via custom connector

A step-by-step SOP for connecting your Composio account to Claude as a custom MCP connector, giving Claude access to over 1000 apps through one connection.

SOP

Connect GoHighLevel MCP to Claude Co-Work

Set up scheduled agents to automate contacts, conversations, leads, and daily operations inside your CRM directly from Claude Desktop.

SOP

Connect Meta Ads to Claude via MCP

Manage campaigns, check ROAS, and optimise ad spend from a single chat interface using the Meta Ads MCP connector.

SOP

Create a brand-specific design skill for Claude

Package your brand design system into a custom Claude skill so every page, deck, and document comes out on-brand automatically.

SOP

Design Instagram carousels with Claude Design

Build branded Instagram carousels from scratch using Claude Design. Create a design system from screenshots, generate slides, and export ready-to-post images.

SOP

Fable 5 operating procedure

A repeatable operating procedure for getting first-shot, reliable output from Claude Fable 5. Six shifts that change how the model works for solo founders and service businesses.

SOP

Generate UGC video ads with Claude + Higgsfield

Step-by-step SOP for connecting Claude to Higgsfield and generating UGC-style video ads from a single product photo. Includes MCP setup, skill method, and ready-to-use prompts.

SOP

Install the Find Skills skill for Claude Code

Step-by-step SOP for installing and using Vercel Labs' Find Skills skill in Claude Code. Search, discover, and install community-built skills from your terminal.

SOP

Build a landing page from nothing with Claude Code

Use Claude Code to build a complete, branded landing page from a short brief. No page builder, no developer, no templates.

SOP

Claude Code Loop Pack — /goal and /loop

A step-by-step SOP for running /goal and /loop inside Claude Code. Stop prompting one task at a time and start building autonomous loops that finish the job while you step away.

SOP

Claude + Magnific MCP

Standard operating procedure for connecting Claude to Magnific MCP and generating production-grade images, videos, and creative assets directly from chat.

SOP

Create motion graphics with Claude Code and Remotion

No terminal, no video editor. Describe the graphic, preview it, render it — render-quality motion graphics with Claude Code (Desktop) plus Remotion.

SOP

Research-driven content calendar

Build a full month of Instagram content grounded in competitor research using Claude and the Apify connector.

SOP

Set up a scheduled task in Claude Cowork

Set up a recurring scheduled task in Claude Cowork that automatically repurposes your transcripts into reel scripts, LinkedIn posts, Facebook posts, and carousels.

SOP

Set up and use Claude Tag in Slack

A step-by-step SOP for pairing Claude Tag with your Slack workspace, granting tool access, setting spend limits, and rolling it out to your team.

SOP

Talk to your CRM like a person

Use Claude to read your CRM in plain English. Pull contact histories, find stale deals, draft follow-ups, and tidy your pipeline without clicking through screens.

SOP

Elite web design with Claude Code

Gives Claude a full design vocabulary — typography, color, spacing, layout, and 44 deterministic anti-pattern rules — for interfaces that don't look AI-generated.

CHEAT SHEET

Eleven hooks that stop the scroll — Google Flow

Eleven scroll-stopping visual effects you can make from one photo and one prompt inside Google Flow. Full prompts and tips for each hook.

REPLAY

Masterclass replay

Watch the Claude for Founders Masterclass

SETUP GUIDE

28 Claude tools every founder needs

Complete setup guide for the 28 essential Claude skills, plugins, and connectors that turn you into a top 1% AI power user. Step-by-step installation, use cases, and sources.

SOP

Let your coding agent set up 4 Claude Code plugins

A plain-English SOP for setting up four Claude Code plugins (Graphify, Ponytail, OmniRoute, Agent Skills). Paste one instruction per step and your coding agent does the work.

SOP

Branded truck video with Google Flow

Simple SOP for making a 6-second vertical dashcam brand video in Google Flow. One prompt to copy, one negative prompt, five steps.

SOP

ChatGPT image creation commands

A standard operating procedure for using slash-style image creation commands in ChatGPT to generate product photography, lifestyle shots, technical visuals, and ad creative fast.

CHEAT SHEET

7 codes to type before your prompts

Seven codes that turn Claude into seven different specialists. Type the word, then ask your question. A quick reference cheat sheet from AI Savvy Founders.

SOP

Choose and set up an AI agent for your small business

Step-by-step SOP to choose between OpenAI Dots, Meta Muse and Grok Bot for a small business, connect it safely, and decide after a 7-day trial.

SOP

Stop Claude from draining tokens mid-project

A step-by-step SOP for pasting a token-efficiency custom instruction into Claude so long project sessions stop cutting off mid-deliverable.

SOP

Convert Custom GPTs into Skills and Plugins before they retire

A step by step SOP for turning a retiring Custom GPT into a reusable Skill and a connected Plugin, so the workflow keeps working with no lost thinking.

SOP

Daily MVP — automate your morning briefing

A step by step SOP for building a Claude scheduled task that reads your calendar, tasks, inbox, and Slack every morning and DMs you the three things that need you.

SOP

Deploy the right AI agent for your business

Step-by-step SOP for deploying AI agents in restaurants, gyms, e-commerce, auto repair, real estate, financial advice, agencies and clinics.

SETUP GUIDE

Install the Humanizer skill

What the Humanizer skill does and how to install it in Claude and ChatGPT in under five minutes. Rewrite AI-sounding drafts so they read like you wrote them.

SETUP GUIDE

Simulate your launch with MiroFish

A step-by-step guide to using MiroFish, an AI simulation tool, to test how a virtual crowd reacts to your launch, then turn objections into real customer tests.

SOP

Connect Google Sheets to Claude via Gumloop MCP

Give Claude direct read and write access to your Google Sheets. No code, no API keys, no middleware you have to maintain.

SOP

Connect Jev to Claude and save tokens

Step-by-step SOP to connect Jev, the fast decision model by TypeSafe, to Claude through OpenRouter, so Claude only spends tokens on work that needs real thinking.

CHECKLIST

Website launch readiness checklist

A 20-point standard operating procedure for auditing a website before launch, with copy-paste AI prompts for each check.

SETUP GUIDE

Google Maps Scraper Kit setup

A beginner-friendly setup guide for the Google Maps Scraper Kit. No coding required: Claude Code runs the setup for you while you type plain English instructions.

SOP

MarkItDown MCP setup for Claude Desktop

Install Microsoft's MarkItDown MCP server for Claude Desktop. Convert PDFs, Word docs, Excel sheets, and PowerPoints to clean Markdown automatically. Cut token usage by up to 70%.

SOP

Build a daily Morning Brief agent with Claude

A step-by-step SOP for building a Claude-powered Morning Brief agent that checks Calendar, Asana, Gmail, and Slack every morning and sends one clean briefing to your DMs.

SOP

Add Thinking Orbs to your AI app

Standard operating procedure for installing Thinking Orbs, the open source animation library that replaces generic AI loading spinners with states matched to the task.

SETUP GUIDE

Install the Prompt Builder skill

Step-by-step guide to download, install, and start using the Prompt Builder skill in Claude. Fix weak prompts and get better AI outputs in minutes.

SOP

The Repurposing Machine

Build a Claude agent that repurposes your saved posts to LinkedIn every day — reading from a Google Sheet, publishing through Buffer, written in your voice.

SETUP GUIDE

The 3-Prompt Income Sequence

A step-by-step guide to running the 3-prompt income sequence in Claude: find your fastest path to your income goal, turn it into a 30-day plan, then compound it into recurring revenue.

SETUP GUIDE

Set up Claude like a pro

A four step setup guide for Claude on day one: the desktop app, memory settings, connected tools, and your first project.

SOP

Turn a spreadsheet into an interactive dashboard

A step by step SOP for converting any CSV into a polished, interactive analytics dashboard artifact in Claude, using our master prompt.

SOP

Build a working quiz with Claude Code + Supabase

Step-by-step SOP for non-technical founders to build a lead-generation quiz using Claude Code and Supabase. No quiz software, no monthly fee, full ownership of every answer.

SETUP GUIDE

The business tech stack setup blueprint

A practical setup blueprint for the AI Savvy Founders business tech stack: Google Workspace, Notion, GoHighLevel, Stripe, Asana, Slack, Instagram, ManyChat, Claude Code, and Vercel.

SETUP GUIDE

Three things to do the moment you open Claude

The three-step setup most new Claude users skip entirely, done right in about fifteen minutes: memory, imported context, and the free training that actually helps.

SOP

Top 11 Claude and Codex skills by GitHub stars

The 11 most-starred Claude and Codex skill repos, with the GitHub source link, what each skill does, when to use it, the benefits, and a step-by-step install SOP.

SOP

Automate your Upwork job search with Claude

Step-by-step SOP for connecting Claude to Upwork with a scheduled task that finds matching jobs, checks client hire rate, and drafts proposals for your approval.

CHEAT SHEET

5 skills that turn Claude into a premium web designer

A cheat sheet of five Claude skills — Taste, Impeccable, Playwright CLI, Emil Design Eng, and 3D Front-End — that stop AI websites from looking generic.

SOP

Connect Meta Ads and Higgsfield to Claude

Connect Meta Ads and Higgsfield to Claude as custom connectors, check your ad performance in plain English, and build ad campaigns as paused drafts. No coding.

ROUND-UP

10 systems you can build right now

Ten complete AI systems, each one built from Claude plus one or two connectors, mapped to a documented SOP already on this site. Pick one, follow the setup, ship it.

MINDSET

Action taker vs perfectionist

Same Claude, same hour in the day. One founder ships a working AI system before lunch. The other is still perfecting it. The habits that separate the two, and when to actually slow down.

PROMPT PACK

5 marketing prompts that replace "act like an expert"

"Act like a marketing expert" gives Claude nothing to work with. These 5 prompts force in your real numbers, content, and objections instead, so the output is specific enough to act on.

SOP

Post-call proposal generation

One sentence after a discovery call produces a complete proposal using your skill, the Fathom transcript, and the GHL intake form.

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