Prospect Butcher Co. is a small, worker-owned butcher shop in Brooklyn, New York. It wrote its own set of Claude 'skills' (written playbooks the AI follows) to run its back office, and published them free for other small businesses. The kit includes a morning briefing that pulls email, calendar, tasks and sales numbers, a sales forecaster, a Google Ads check for wasted spend, and Gmail and Google Sheets helpers for vendor emails, sales logs and stock.
Business type: Retail shops. Tool used: Claude Desktop with custom skills (the shop's free starter kit). Result: No time or money figures are given. The shop says the kit is built and tested in its own business every day, and it was featured in Anthropic and PayPal's free AI course for small businesses.
Source: Prospect Butcher Co. skill kit on GitHub (Owner's own story) · Added Mon, Oct 26 · Last updated 2026-10-26
No time or money figures are given. The shop says the kit is built and tested in its own business every day, and it was featured in Anthropic and PayPal's free AI course for small businesses. (as reported by the source)
Prospect Butcher Co. is a small, worker-owned butcher shop in Brooklyn, New York. It wrote its own set of Claude 'skills' (written playbooks the AI follows) to run its back office, and published them free for other small businesses. The kit includes a morning briefing that pulls email, calendar, tasks and sales numbers, a sales forecaster, a Google Ads check for wasted spend, and Gmail and Google Sheets helpers for vendor emails, sales logs and stock.
Claude Desktop with custom skills (the shop's free starter kit).
No time or money figures are given. The shop says the kit is built and tested in its own business every day, and it was featured in Anthropic and PayPal's free AI course for small businesses. (as reported by the source)
Install Claude Desktop (no coding needed). Copy in one skill to start, such as the Gmail helper or the morning briefing. Connect the accounts it needs (email, calendar, sheets) and keep logins stored safely.
Answers come only from the source. Questions it doesn't answer are left out.
Our own prompt for copying this setup. Swap in your details. Not quoted from the source.
Give me a morning briefing for [Shop]: yesterday's sales vs. the same day last week, today's calendar, unanswered vendor emails, and anything low in stock. Keep it to one screen.
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