What is Gen AI University?

Gen AI University transforms founders into agentic CEOs. Founded by Darby Rollins, it offers live workshop training programs where you build your AI Chief of Staff and train your team of AI and human operators across sales, markets, and operations. 40+ MarketSauce AI Skills included.

What are MarketSauce AI Skills?

Each MarketSauce AI Skill is a complete operation you deploy into your business. One skill runs a full 10-phase market diagnostic. Another runs your entire book production pipeline. Another handles video post-production end to end. You describe what you need and the system runs it. No coding required. 40+ skills in the training program, new ones added monthly.

How much does the workshop cost?

The Build Your AI Chief of Staff Workshop is $297 one-time. It includes the full live workshop series with Darby Rollins, 40+ MarketSauce AI Skills for sales, markets, and operations, all templates and source code, and ongoing monthly live training sessions.

What is the Build Your AI Chief of Staff?

The Build Your AI Chief of Staff Workshop is a multi-day live intensive. You build your AI Chief of Staff, inbox triage, and daily operating system live with Darby Rollins. $297 one-time, includes all MarketSauce AI Skills, templates, source code, and ongoing workshop access.

Who is Darby Rollins?

Darby Rollins is the founder of Gen AI University, the premium platform where agentic CEOs build their AI Chief of Staff. He builds the skills, runs the workshops, and helps founders scale sales, marketing, and operations with AI and human agents. More at darbyrollins.com.

How to Turn Any Book Into a Claude AI Skill (Live Build)

6 min

How to Turn Any Book Into a Claude AI Skill (Live Build)

Artificial Intelligence

Jun 8

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6 min

Darby Rollins

How to Turn Any Book Into a Claude AI Skill (Live Build)

Most business books get read once and sit on a shelf. The frameworks inside them — the ones you keep meaning to apply — never make it into your day. Here's a better ending: turn the book into a working AI skill that runs the framework on demand. In this live build, a full book becomes a Claude skill that produces 8-page client assessments in seconds.

What you'll learn

Why most books have no “AI layer” — and what that costs you
How to load an entire book into Claude
How to pick the one framework worth turning into a skill first
How a skill installed once runs forever, for you or a client

Step-by-step

Upload the book into Claude. A full manuscript goes in; Claude reads the entire thing, not just a summary.
Choose the framework to extract. Don't build ten skills — find the one repeatable process you'd run again and again. That's your first skill.
Let Claude extract it into a skill. Claude turns the framework into a structured, reusable skill file: the instructions, the inputs, the output format.
Install and test it live. Drop the skill in, run it on a real input, and watch it produce the deliverable on the spot.
Reuse it. The same pattern becomes a “skill that builds skills” — point it at any book and pull out the next one.

What you can build with this

Turn a methodology book into an on-demand assessment or audit tool
Give a coaching framework a working AI version clients can run
Encode your own book or SOPs into a skill your team uses daily
Build a library of skills that each do one expert job well

Watch the full live build

The complete walkthrough — including where Claude broke on camera and got fixed in 30 seconds — is in the video above, or watch it on YouTube.

This is one skill. A team of them is an AI Chief of Staff.

One extracted skill is useful. A specialized set of them, with memory and a Chief of Staff on top, runs your business. See how the whole system fits together at genaiu.com.

Darby Rollins

Author

Darby is an entrepreneur who became the world's first verified Jasper user in December 2020 and founded Gen AI University in 2021—18 months before ChatGPT launched. Since then, he's co-created AI curriculum for UC Berkeley's Changemaker program, facilitated hundreds of private AI workshops, and helped thousands of entrepreneurs implement AI systems that have influenced millions in revenue. He's the author of Buyer's Brief, creator of the MarketSauce® method, and has been quoted in Forbes, The New York Times, and The Verge on AI-powered content creation, book writing, and workflow automation. He now runs an AI implementation mastermind, architects AI systems, and co-hosts SideHustle® LIVE, the comedy game show for entrepreneurs in Austin, TX.

How to Turn Any Book Into a Claude AI Skill (Live Build)

How to Turn Any Book Into a Claude AI Skill (Live Build)

What you'll learn

Step-by-step

What you can build with this

Watch the full live build

This is one skill. A team of them is an AI Chief of Staff.

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