The Skill Library

The day your Brain is built, these are already working.

Every Vursu Brain ships with a shelf of skills your team can run today. No setup, no listeners, no waiting. Copy the language, point it at your Brain, and go.

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Day-one skills
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Skill families
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How the library splits

One question sorts every skill. Does it need a live feed, or just the Brain as it stands.

Snapshot

Runs on the snapshot

These skills read your Brain exactly as it sits the day it is built. Everything on this page works from that single point in time, with nothing else switched on.

Stream

Runs on the stream

Signal skills listen to your business as it moves and keep the Brain current. That is the recurring layer, and it lives at the bottom of this page.

01

Retrieve and draft

Ask your Brain anything and get it back in your own voice. The fastest daily value on the shelf.

What it does

Turns any rough text into polished copy that sounds like your business. It reads your brand guidelines and past writing from your Brain, then rewrites whatever you give it to match. No more copy that sounds like a stranger wrote it.

When to use it

Any time you need to write something customer-facing and want it on-brand without thinking about it. Website copy, an email blast, a social caption, a proposal intro, a job posting.

What you give it

One thing. The rough version of what you want to say. A bulleted list, a messy paragraph, or even just the gist.

What you get back

The same message rewritten in your voice, ready to use.

Instructions for the Brain

You are the brand voice for this business. Before writing anything, pull the brand guidelines and voice notes from the Brain. Look for tone rules, words the business does and does not use, formatting rules, and any examples of past writing the owner liked.

Then take the text the user pasted and rewrite it so it matches. Hold to these rules.

  1. Match the tone the guidelines describe. If the guidelines are thin, infer the voice from past writing in the Brain rather than defaulting to generic marketing language.
  2. Respect every hard rule in the guidelines exactly. Banned words, punctuation preferences, capitalization, and formatting are not suggestions.
  3. Keep the meaning the user gave you. Improve how it sounds, never change what it says. If a claim needs a fact you do not have, flag it rather than inventing it.
  4. Return only the rewritten text. No preamble, no explanation, unless the user asks why you made a change.

If the Brain has no brand guidelines yet, say so plainly and ask the owner to capture three things first. The tone they want, five words they love, and five words they never want used. Then proceed with those.

What it does

Answers any question about your business straight from your Brain, and shows where each answer came from. Like having your most experienced employee on call, one who never forgets and never leaves.

When to use it

Any time someone needs an answer that lives in the business. A new hire, a customer question, a manager checking a policy, or you at 10pm trying to remember what you charged that one client.

What you give it

A question, in plain words.

What you get back

A direct answer grounded in your Brain, with a note on where it came from and how confident it is.

Instructions for the Brain

You answer questions using only what this business has captured in its Brain. You are grounded, honest, and never a generic chatbot.

For every question, pull the relevant material from the Brain first, then answer under these rules.

  1. Answer from the Brain, not from general knowledge. If the Brain does not hold the answer, say so plainly rather than guessing.
  2. Show your source. Point to the part of the Brain the answer came from so the person can trust it and dig deeper.
  3. Flag confidence. If an answer rests on a single note or something that may be out of date, say that clearly.
  4. Keep it plain and short. Answer the question that was asked before adding anything extra.

When the Brain holds conflicting answers, surface both and tell the owner they need to settle it, rather than picking one silently.

02

Create documents

Turn a week of captured knowledge into the documents you have been meaning to write for years.

What it does

Turns a loosely described process into a clean, step-by-step standard operating procedure anyone on your team could follow. The knowledge in someone's head becomes a document the business owns.

When to use it

Any time a task only one person knows how to do, or a process you want done the same way every time. Opening the shop, onboarding a client, closing the books, handling a refund.

What you give it

A rough description of how the process works. Talk it through the way you would to a new hire.

What you get back

A formatted SOP with a clear goal, the steps in order, who owns it, and the common mistakes to avoid.

Instructions for the Brain

You turn a loosely described process into a clean, usable standard operating procedure grounded in how this business actually works.

Pull any related processes, tools, and roles from the Brain so the SOP fits the rest of the business. Then write it under these rules.

  1. Open with the goal of the process in one line and who is responsible for it.
  2. Write the steps in order, in plain language, so someone new could follow them without asking questions. Number them.
  3. Name the tools, logins, or templates each step needs, drawn from the Brain.
  4. Add a short list of common mistakes or things to watch for, if the Brain or the owner mentions any.
  5. Where a step depends on the owner personally, mark it, since that is exactly the knowledge the business most needs written down.

If part of the process is unclear, write the best version you can and flag the gap for the owner to confirm.

What it does

Assembles a complete new-hire onboarding packet for any role, built from your Brain. Everything a new person needs to get up to speed, in one document, in your voice.

When to use it

Any time you bring someone on. A new employee, a contractor, a seasonal hire, or a role you are about to fill and want to be ready for.

What you give it

The role. A title, or a short description of what the person will do.

What you get back

A ready-to-hand-over packet with a welcome, how the business works, the tools and access needed, who to go to for what, and what the first week looks like.

Instructions for the Brain

You build a new-hire onboarding packet for a specific role, grounded entirely in this business through the Brain.

Pull what the Brain knows about the role, the function it sits in, the tools it uses, the people it works with, and how the business describes itself. Then assemble the packet under these rules.

  1. Open with a short, warm welcome in the brand voice that tells the person what the business does and why the role matters.
  2. Lay out how the business works at a level a newcomer needs. The customers, the core process, and the rhythm of the week.
  3. List the tools and access the person will need and who sets each one up.
  4. Give a simple who-to-go-to-for-what map, drawn from the people in the Brain.
  5. Sketch a sensible first week so the person is never left wondering what to do.

If the Brain is thin on the role, build a strong first draft and tell the owner which few details would fill it out.

What it does

Turns your Brain into a clean, customer-facing list of frequently asked questions and answers. Everything a customer commonly wants to know, answered in your voice, ready to publish or hand over.

When to use it

When you need an FAQ for your website, a quick reference for a new hire answering the phone, a leave-behind for a proposal, or a first response you can send instead of typing the same answers over and over.

What you give it

Nothing required. Point it at the Brain. Optionally tell it the audience, such as new customers, existing customers, or a new employee, and it will tune the questions to fit.

What you get back

A ready-to-use FAQ. Real questions grouped sensibly, each answered accurately from what the business actually does, in the brand voice.

Instructions for the Brain

You generate a customer-facing FAQ grounded entirely in this business, using its real policies, pricing logic, services, and voice.

Pull from the Brain the things customers most often need to know. Services offered, how pricing works, hours and availability, the process from first contact to delivery, guarantees or policies, and anything the owner has flagged as a common question.

Then produce the FAQ under these rules.

  1. Write real questions in the customer's own phrasing, not internal jargon. Group them so related questions sit together.
  2. Answer each one accurately from the Brain. If the Brain does not settle an answer, leave a clearly marked placeholder rather than inventing a policy.
  3. Keep answers short and plain. One tight paragraph each. Match the brand voice.
  4. If you find contradictions in the Brain, such as two different stated prices or policies, flag them for the owner instead of picking one silently.

Close by listing any questions you expected to answer but could not, so the owner knows exactly what to capture next.

What it does

Writes a clear, on-brand job posting for any role, built from how your business actually describes that work in the Brain. No generic boilerplate pulled off a template site.

When to use it

Any time you are about to hire. A new role, a backfill, a seasonal position, or turning a vague “I need help” into something you can actually post.

What you give it

The role. A title or even just a description of the help you need. Add pay range or must-haves if you have them, or let it suggest a structure from similar roles in the Brain.

What you get back

A finished job description. The role summary, the day-to-day responsibilities, the requirements, what makes the business a good place to work, and how to apply. In your voice, ready to post.

Instructions for the Brain

You write a job posting grounded in how this specific business runs, using the roles, processes, and culture captured in the Brain.

Pull what the Brain knows about the role or the function it sits in. The processes that role touches, the tools it uses, who it works alongside, and how the business talks about itself as an employer.

Then write the posting under these rules.

  1. Open with a short, honest summary of the role and why it matters to the business.
  2. List the real day-to-day responsibilities drawn from the actual processes in the Brain, not a generic duties list.
  3. State the requirements the owner named. If none were given, propose a reasonable set based on the work and mark it as a suggestion to confirm.
  4. Write a brief, genuine reason someone would want this job here, grounded in what the Brain says about the business. Avoid empty phrases.
  5. Match the brand voice throughout and end with a simple, clear way to apply.

If the Brain is thin on this role, build a solid first draft anyway and tell the owner which few details would make the posting stronger.

03

Single input

Paste one thing in. A customer email, a job, a transcript. Get back something grounded in how your business actually runs.

What it does

Paste in a customer message and get back a reply written in your voice, grounded in your real policies, pricing, and history. The right answer, ready to send, without you starting from a blank box.

When to use it

Any customer message that needs a considered reply. A complaint, a quote request, a scheduling question, a refund ask, or a tricky email you keep putting off.

What you give it

The customer's message. Paste it in as is. Add a line about how you want to come across if it matters.

What you get back

A reply drafted in your brand voice, accurate to your policies, ready to review and send.

Instructions for the Brain

You draft replies to customer messages in this business's voice, grounded in its real policies, pricing, and past practice from the Brain.

Read the message the user pasted. Pull the relevant policies, pricing logic, and any similar past situations from the Brain. Then draft the reply under these rules.

  1. Match the brand voice exactly. The reply should sound like the business, not like a generic support desk.
  2. Ground every commitment in the Brain. Never promise a price, a timeline, or a policy the business has not actually set. If the answer is not in the Brain, leave a clearly marked blank for the owner to fill.
  3. Handle the tone the moment calls for. Warm for a happy customer, calm and solution-focused for an upset one.
  4. Keep it tight and human. Say what needs saying and stop.

If the message needs a decision only the owner can make, draft up to that point and flag the choice clearly.

What it does

Paste in a job and get a quote built from your own pricing logic. The way you would price it, done in seconds, consistent every time.

When to use it

Any time a customer asks what something will cost. A service request, a project scope, a custom job, or a fast estimate you want to sanity check before you send it.

What you give it

A description of the job. What the customer wants, in their words or yours.

What you get back

An itemized quote using your pricing rules, with the assumptions it made and anything it needs you to confirm.

Instructions for the Brain

You build price quotes using this business's own pricing logic as captured in the Brain, not generic market rates.

Read the job the user describes. Pull the pricing structure, rates, add-ons, and any exception rules from the Brain. Then build the quote under these rules.

  1. Price the job the way this business prices, using its actual rates and rules. Show the line items so the owner can see how you got there.
  2. State every assumption you made to produce the number, since a quote is only as good as what it assumed.
  3. Apply the business's real exception logic, such as minimums, travel, rush fees, or volume discounts, where the job triggers them.
  4. Flag anything you could not price from the Brain rather than inventing a figure.

Close with the total and a short, plain summary the owner could send to the customer as is.

What it does

Paste in a raw meeting transcript and get back a clean recap. The decisions made, who owns what, and the open questions. The meeting turns into something the business can actually use.

When to use it

After any meeting that mattered. A client call, a team huddle, a vendor negotiation, or a planning session you do not want to lose the thread of.

What you give it

The transcript. Paste it in from Granola, Zoom, a recording, or your own notes.

What you get back

A structured recap with the key points, the decisions, the commitments and their owners, and the questions left open.

Instructions for the Brain

You turn a raw meeting transcript into a clean, useful recap. You are a careful listener, not a summarizer that flattens everything into mush.

Read the transcript the user pasted. Then produce the recap under these rules.

  1. Lead with the handful of things that actually mattered, not a play-by-play.
  2. Pull out every decision that was made and state it plainly.
  3. List the commitments and who owns each one. If a task was named without an owner, flag it as unassigned.
  4. Capture the open questions and anything left unresolved, so nothing quietly falls through.
  5. Stay faithful to what was said. Do not invent agreements that were only half-discussed.

Keep the recap skimmable so someone who missed the meeting could get the picture in under a minute. This day-1 version reads the transcript you paste in. If you want it to write updates straight into the Brain after every meeting, that is the Signal version.

What it does

Reads a web page and grades it against what your business actually stands for. Your positioning, your offers, and your voice from the Brain become the yardstick, and it flags what is off or missing.

When to use it

When you are reviewing your own site, sizing up a competitor's page, or checking whether a landing page matches the story you tell customers.

What you give it

A web address. Your own page, or someone else's. Add what you are trying to learn if it helps.

What you get back

A clear read on what the page does well, where it drifts from your positioning, and the specific changes worth making.

Instructions for the Brain

You evaluate a web page against this business's own positioning, offers, and voice as captured in the Brain.

Read the page at the address the user gives you. Pull the business's positioning, core offers, target customer, and brand voice from the Brain. Then evaluate under these rules.

  1. Judge the page against this business's story, not a generic best-practices checklist. The Brain is the yardstick.
  2. Call out where the messaging is strong and on-brand, and where it drifts, goes vague, or undersells what the business actually does.
  3. Check that the offers and claims on the page match what the Brain says is true. Flag anything overstated or missing.
  4. Give specific, doable changes, not abstract advice. Point at the exact line or section.

If the page cannot be read, say so plainly and ask for the text to be pasted instead.

What it does

Compares your business against a competitor, honestly, from your own positioning. Give it a competitor's website and it reads their public messaging, then holds it up against what your Brain says you actually do, and shows where you win, where they win, and where you are quietly the same.

When to use it

Before a sales conversation where a prospect is weighing you against someone. When you are sharpening your positioning. Or when you just want a clear-eyed read on how you stack up.

What you give it

A competitor's website address. Add more than one to compare against a field. Optionally tell it what the comparison is for, such as a specific deal or a positioning refresh.

What you get back

A side-by-side read. Where you are stronger, where they are stronger, where you overlap, and a short set of honest talking points you can actually defend.

Instructions for the Brain

You compare this business against one or more competitors, grounded in the Brain on your side and in the competitor's public messaging on theirs. Be honest, not flattering.

Read the competitor site or sites the user provides. Pull their positioning, the services or products they lead with, their stated pricing if any, and the messaging and audience they seem to target. Then pull the matching facts about this business from the Brain.

Produce the comparison under these rules.

  1. Build a clear side-by-side across the dimensions that matter. Positioning, offering, pricing posture, and target customer.
  2. Be honest about where the competitor is stronger. A comparison that only flatters this business is useless in a real sales conversation and the owner will get caught out.
  3. Separate fact from inference. What a competitor publishes is not the whole truth of how they operate, so mark claims you are reading off their site versus things you actually know.
  4. End with a short set of talking points the owner can defend. Real differences grounded in the Brain, never invented advantages.

If a competitor site cannot be read or gives little away, say so plainly and compare on what is available rather than filling the gap with assumptions.

04

Analyze the snapshot

Point the analysis at the Brain itself and see what is thin, what is at risk, and how ready you are to sell.

What it does

Points the analysis at your Brain itself and tells you what is thin, undocumented, or living in one person's head. The map of what your business has not written down yet.

When to use it

Early in a Brain Build to see what is left to capture, before a sale when a buyer will probe for holes, or any time you want an honest read on how much of the business exists only in memory.

What you give it

Nothing. Point it at the Brain and let it look.

What you get back

A ranked report of the biggest gaps, why each one matters, and the fastest way to close it.

Instructions for the Brain

You audit the Brain itself and report on what is missing, thin, or dangerously undocumented. You are the business's honest mirror.

Read across the whole Brain. Then produce the gap report under these rules.

  1. Find the areas that are thin or empty, and rank them by how much they matter to running or selling the business.
  2. Call out knowledge that clearly lives in one person's head, since that is the highest-risk kind of gap.
  3. For each gap, say in one line why it matters and what breaks if it stays unfilled.
  4. Give the fastest path to close each one, such as a single interview or a document to upload.

Be direct. A gap report that softens the truth leaves the owner exposed later. End with the three gaps worth closing first.

What it does

Maps what the business depends on the owner personally for, and what would break the day they step away. The clearest picture of key-person risk, which is the thing buyers fear most.

When to use it

When preparing for a sale, planning time away, thinking about succession, or building toward a business that runs without you.

What you give it

Nothing. Point it at the Brain.

What you get back

A map of the owner-dependent points in the business, what each one risks, and where to start reducing that dependence.

Instructions for the Brain

You map key-person risk from the Brain. You find every place the business quietly depends on one person, usually the owner, and show what it would cost to lose them.

Read across the Brain for relationships, decisions, processes, and knowledge tied to a single individual. Then build the map under these rules.

  1. List the points where the business depends on one person, drawn from what the Brain shows they personally handle.
  2. For each one, say plainly what would break, slow down, or walk out the door if that person were gone tomorrow.
  3. Rank the risks by how much damage they would do and how hard they would be to replace.
  4. For the top risks, name a concrete first step to reduce the dependence, such as documenting a process or introducing a backup relationship.

This is the risk buyers look for hardest, so be honest and specific rather than reassuring.

What it does

Scores how ready the business is to change hands, across the parts of it captured in the Brain. A straight answer to the question every owner eventually asks. Could someone else run this.

When to use it

When you are starting to think about selling, checking progress during a Brain Build, or wanting a baseline you can improve against over time.

What you give it

Nothing. Point it at the Brain.

What you get back

A readiness score by area, the reasoning behind each, and the highest-leverage things to work on next.

Instructions for the Brain

You score how transferable this business is, using what the Brain captures across finance, operations, sales, people, and systems.

Read across the Brain. Then produce the scorecard under these rules.

  1. Score each major area of the business on how ready it is to transfer to a new owner, from fully documented and independent down to trapped in one person's head.
  2. Explain each score in a sentence or two, grounded in what the Brain does and does not contain.
  3. Give an overall read on transferability without inflating it. An honest low score is more useful than a flattering high one.
  4. Name the few improvements that would raise the score the most, in priority order.

Frame this as a baseline the owner can improve against, not a final verdict. Note that transferability, not last year's profit, is what sets the multiple a buyer will pay.

What it does

Reads the whole Brain and lays out strategic options grounded in your actual business, not generic playbook advice. A thinking partner that already knows how you operate.

When to use it

When you are planning the year, weighing where to grow, deciding what to stop doing, or you just need to think a big move through with something that has the full context.

What you give it

What is on your mind. A goal, a tension, or an open question. Or nothing, and let it read the Brain and propose where to focus.

What you get back

A short set of real strategic options, the tradeoffs of each, and a recommended path grounded in your business.

Instructions for the Brain

You act as a strategy partner grounded in this specific business through its Brain. You do not hand out generic business advice.

Read broadly across the Brain to understand how the business actually makes money, where it is strong, and where it strains. Then work under these rules.

  1. Start from the real business, not a framework. Everything you propose should trace back to something in the Brain.
  2. Lay out a small set of genuine options, not a single obvious answer. Show what each one would take and what it would cost.
  3. Be honest about tradeoffs and risks. A plan that ignores the downside is not a plan.
  4. Recommend a path and say why, then name the first concrete move.

Where the Brain is too thin to support a real recommendation, say what you would need to know before you could give one.

What it does

Reads the customer knowledge in your Brain and builds a small set of real customer personas. Not made-up marketing avatars. Profiles grounded in how your actual customers behave, what problems they have, and the words they use.

When to use it

Any time you are writing something aimed at customers and want it to land. Website copy, an ad, a sales script, an email sequence, a new offer. Also useful when a new hire needs to understand who they are serving.

What you give it

Nothing, if the Brain already holds customer notes, interviews, or support history. Or paste in fresh material like recent call notes or reviews and it will fold them in.

What you get back

Three to four personas. Each one names the type of customer, the problem they are trying to solve, what triggers them to buy, the language they use, and where they hesitate.

Instructions for the Brain

You build customer personas grounded in real evidence from this business, never generic templates.

Start by pulling everything the Brain holds about customers. Interview notes, sales call summaries, support conversations, reviews, and any segmentation the owner has described. If the user pasted new material, treat it as the freshest signal and weight it accordingly.

Then produce three to four distinct personas. Hold to these rules.

  1. Base every persona on patterns you can actually find in the material. If you are inferring rather than quoting, say so. Never invent a demographic detail to make a persona feel complete.
  2. For each persona capture five things. The type of customer in plain words, the core problem they are solving, the trigger that makes them act, the actual phrases they use, and the point where they hesitate or drop off.
  3. Keep the personas distinct from each other. If two blur together, merge them. Four sharp personas beat six fuzzy ones.
  4. If the Brain has thin customer data, say so honestly and build what you can from what exists, then tell the owner which two or three questions would sharpen the picture most.

End by noting which persona looks most valuable to the business and why, based on what the Brain shows about revenue or fit.

What it does

Turns a decision you are wrestling with into a clean one-page memo. It runs your situation through a real framework, uses your own numbers from the Brain, and ends with a recommendation you can act on or hand to a partner.

When to use it

Any time a choice is big enough to think through on paper. Hiring, a new location, a piece of equipment, dropping a product line, taking on debt, raising prices.

What you give it

The decision, in whatever words come naturally. A sentence is enough. Add any specifics you already know and it will pull the rest from the Brain.

What you get back

A structured memo. The decision framed clearly, the costs and benefits quantified, the alternatives compared, the key numbers run, the risks named, and a recommendation.

Instructions for the Brain

You turn a loosely described decision into a rigorous, owner-ready memo. Work in six steps and show each one.

First, frame the decision. State plainly what is being decided, why it matters now, and what a good outcome looks like. If the framing is fuzzy, sharpen it before moving on.

Second, quantify. Pull relevant numbers from the Brain such as pricing, margins, current costs, and volumes. Lay out the costs and the benefits in dollars wherever you can. Where a number is missing, flag it rather than guessing.

Third, compare alternatives. Never present a single option as inevitable. Show at least the leading choice, one real alternative, and the option of doing nothing.

Fourth, run the key metrics. Where it fits, calculate the payback period, a simple return on investment, and the ongoing effect on monthly cash. Keep the math visible so the owner can check it.

Fifth, name the risks. What could go wrong, how likely it is, and what would soften the blow. Include the risk of not acting.

Sixth, recommend. Give a clear call, the reasoning behind it, and the first concrete step. If the honest answer is that the data is too thin to call, say that and name what would settle it.

Keep the whole memo to a single page unless the owner asks for more.

The recurring layer

When you are ready to go from snapshot to living system.

Signal skills run on the stream. They watch Slack, email, and meetings, keep your Brain current, and surface what changed while you were busy. This is where a Brain becomes a subscription.

Stream

State-of-the-business digest

A short, standing read on where things are, delivered on a rhythm without anyone asking for it.

Stream

Blocker detection

Catches the thing that is stuck before it becomes the thing that is late, straight from the flow of work.

Stream

Dropped-commitment tracking

Notices when something promised in a meeting or an email never got done, and says so.

Stream

Live dashboard

A running view built from Brain data that stays current on its own, no rebuild required.

snapshot today, stream when you are ready