Make a write-like-me skill from your sent email

How this helps you

Drafts come back sounding like you, so you edit less before sending.

✦ Try it

Create a skill to write like me for emails and other writing. Use my sent emails in [email account] to learn how I write: length, tone, greetings, sign-offs and words I never use. Show me the skill before saving it.

Fill in: [email account] is the connected inbox with your own sent mail, not a shared or team inbox.

What they did

Nat from Founders School asked his Bot to create a skill to write like him for emails and other places, using his emails to train itself. It read 120 of his sent emails and saved a skill with rules such as: writes like he talks, direct, warm, no padding, most emails one to three sentences. He opened the skill to check it and said it fit how he writes. Later in the video, a different agent writing a blog post picked up the write-like-Nat skill without being told.

Who it's for: Anyone who has Bots draft email, posts or docs and is tired of rewriting them to sound like themselves.

Before you start

Email connected to Grok Bot (Gmail or Outlook).
Enough sent email to learn from: Nat's run used 120 messages.

How to try it

Connect your email if you haven't.
Paste the prompt below into your main Bot.
Wait a minute or two; it reads a batch of sent mail.
Open the new skill and read the rules it wrote.
Edit anything that sounds wrong, or tell the Bot what to change.
Test it: ask for a draft reply and compare it with how you would write it.

What to expect

Nat's skill: "Nat writes like he talks. Direct, warm, no padding. Length follows the content. Most of his emails are one to three sentences."

Common mistakes

Training it on a shared inbox where other people's writing mixes in.
Never reading the skill. Check it the way Nat did and fix what's off.
Expecting it to send. Keep drafts as drafts until you trust the voice.

Related tips

Triage and reply to email from the chat: Ask for a brief of emails that need replies, then answer them in one line each.
Do it by hand, save a skill, then schedule: Most automations break because they're scheduled before they've worked once.
Start each day with an approvals prompt, end it with a night prompt: Two short daily questions that get your Bot to find work you forgot about.
Inbox manager in review mode that learns from your edits: A separate inbox Bot sorts mail and Slack, drafts replies in your voice, and every Friday compares its drafts with what you actually sent.