How it works
From zero to a usable output in one sitting
You don't need to understand AI or write a single prompt. Here's the whole thing, start to finish.
The four steps
- Step 1
Get Claude
Sign in to the AI assistant you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, or another. That's the only tool you need.
- Step 2
Add Mainstreet.AI
Add the skills to Claude or ChatGPT by following a short, plain English setup guide — or just copy and paste them into any chat. No coding, no configuration files.
- Step 3
Complete your Business Profile
Answer simple questions about your business once. Every skill reuses it so the work sounds like you.
- Step 4
Choose a task, get usable work
Pick the thing that's been slipping, a lead reply, an estimate follow up, and get a finished draft to review.
How the automation works
Three tiers. You are always in control.
Every assistant can catch what is slipping, not just write when asked. How much it can look at depends on what you choose to set up.
Tier 1
For everyoneSweep
Paste a pile, your inbox, estimates, or invoices, and it flags what needs you now and drafts the fix. No setup, no integrations, works from day one.
Tier 2
OptionalConnected
If you connect your Google account, it can read your inbox to find what is slipping, when you ask. It still never sends, replies to, or files anything.
Tier 3
AdvancedScheduled
On plans that support scheduled tasks, your Morning Catch Up can run each morning and land in front of you. The digest goes only to you, never to a customer.
Whatever the tier: you review every draft. Nothing is ever sent to a customer automatically.
Your first 30 minutes
One real output, session one
Onboarding is designed around time to first useful output, not a menu of 15 things to explore.
Minutes 0 to 10
Set up
Confirm your Claude access, add the skills, and start your Business Profile, capture your identity, services, and tone. Answer "unknown" for anything you're not sure about.
Minutes 10 to 20
Point it at your worst pain
Generate your Business Profile, then pick the thing that's been slipping most, usually slow lead response or estimate follow up.
Minutes 20 to 30
Get a real output
Run the skill, review the draft, and send or save it. You leave your first session with something usable in hand.
Success looks like one tangible artifact: a lead response template, an estimate follow up, a review request, a Google Business post, or a documented process.
No coding, no APIs
Copy, paste, and review. Automations and integrations are optional and come later, if ever.
You stay in control
Every customer facing skill drafts; you send. Nothing goes out automatically.
Your team can use it
Once your profile is set, anyone you trust with the account can run the skills.
Installed in minutes
The exact install, not a promise about it
No terminal. No code. No prompt library to learn.
- 1
Download the ZIP
estimate-follow-up.zip
3 KB · downloaded
One small file per skill — the free skill works exactly the same way.
- 2
Open Customize → Skills
Settings
- Profile
- Skills
- Connectors
In Claude's settings, under Capabilities on some plans.
- 3
Create skill → Upload a skill
Upload a skill
Drop your .zip here
Upload the ZIP itself — don't unzip it first.
- 4
Turn the skill on
estimate-follow-up
Skill · enabled
One toggle. It's now part of your Claude.
- 5
Tell Claude the task in plain English
“Sent Karen a $4,200 patio estimate 8 days ago. No reply.”
No prompts to learn — describe the estimate like you'd tell a coworker.
- 6
Review the finished output
Ready for your review
Priority 1 · message drafted · Day 4 and Day 9 touches planned
Status, plan, and the drafted message — nothing sends without you.
You need an account with an AI assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, or another. Installing skills in Claude and creating Custom GPTs in ChatGPT both need those providers' paid plans; the copy-and-paste version works on any plan. Menu names can differ slightly by plan and app version — the included Start Here guide covers the variations. (Last verified 2026-08-02.)
Interface shown is our simplified rendering of the flow, not a customer account.
See the skills that do the work
Set up your business once, then pick a task and get finished work back in minutes.