Turn what you already know into an AI product people pay for

Most AI tools take your word for it. This skill passes a check only when the evidence is in front of it. If the evidence is missing, the check fails, even when your answer sounded good. Each stage ends in a gate, and the next stage does not start until every check passes.

Every other door teaches you to do something new with AI. After each one, run a five-minute Capture on what you just did. In the full skill, say "Use the capture-package-launch skill for my skill stack".

1. i.Ask whether you, or someone you help, will do this job again. If not, skip the day.
2. ii.Write the steps you took, and circle the one you would hand off.
3. iii.Run the Capture checks on it. If they pass, add a line to your tracker.

On Christmas Day, pick the job people ask you about most. That is your first product, and you run Package and Launch on it.

I'm Joshua Davis, founder of No-Code Exits, and I run my businesses on more than 100 Claude skills. Door 1 did not start as this skill. Here is every angle I tried, in order, and what made me move on.

1. Version 1

   Where I started

   My first idea was a lesson on turning what you know into an AI skill: pick one process you repeat, write it as a skill, run it once. It was a topic, though, and it did not promise an outcome.

2. Version 2

   The AI interviews you

   Next I tried a version where the AI asks you questions. It was too close to other lessons, and it asked readers to already be experts.

   "This is now asking them to be an expert."

3. Version 3

   Rebuild something you made

   Then a version where you paste something you made and the AI rebuilds it. It failed beginners for the reason that ended up shaping everything after it.

   "A lot of beginners don't have something to start with and don't know what 'good' looks like. Just having AI interview you leads to average results. There is nothing checking if what it is creating is 'good'."

4. Version 4

   The research

   So I scored all 25 doors from last year on nine criteria, and read this year's lineup. The gap was clear: very few doors gave readers any way to check their result. The numbers are in the next section.

5. Version 5

   Three tests before you trust a skill

   A lesson built only on checks was close, but readers needed something they could walk away with and keep using, and it had to lead somewhere.

   "I like how they can walk away with something to use right away and leads into using AI to create a product people will pay for"

6. Version 6

   Where I landed

   The answer was already in my free guide. Its three steps, Capture, Package, Launch, became the skill, with checks at every stage, built from my own work and not from made-up examples.

   "The personalization and positioning they put into the skill is what makes it stand out and not be generic."

I read every door from the 2025 challenge and scored each one on nine things, such as whether a beginner could do it, whether you kept something you could use again, and whether it showed you how to tell a good result from a bad one. These are the totals.

Of the first 15 doors listed for this year, one is built around checking a result, and none teaches you to judge what AI hands back in general. That is the gap this door fills.

Tell me what you built and how you use it. I read every one, and with your permission I show the best ones on this page.