5 Claude skills that do your boring documents

You already have a document team. It is Claude.

Most of the admin that eats your week is just documents. A deck for the pitch. An update for investors. A spreadsheet that needs cleaning. A contract you have to actually read. A form you have been avoiding. None of it is hard. It is just slow, and it is the kind of slow you never get back.

Here is the thing nobody tells non-technical founders: Claude does not just chat. It builds the real files. A proper PowerPoint. A formatted Word doc. A working spreadsheet with the formulas in. You describe what you want in one sentence and it hands you the finished thing, ready to download.

Below are the five I lean on most, with the exact prompt for each. Open a new chat in Claude, paste the line, and for the ones that work on a file (the spreadsheet, the contract, the form) attach your file first.

The five prompts

1. The pitch deck (.pptx)

Give it your rough points and it builds actual slides, not an outline. You get a downloadable PowerPoint you can open and edit. Swap my bullets for yours.

Turn these into a clean 6-slide pitch deck as a .pptx file:
Problem: founders waste hours building documents by hand.
Solution: Claude builds them in one line.
Market: every small business and solo founder.
Traction: 10,000 users in 6 months.
Team: two ex-operators who lived the problem.
Ask: raising 500k to grow the team.
Keep it visual, one idea per slide, short headlines.

2. The investor update (.docx)

Five bullets in, a clean formatted Word doc out. The kind of update people actually read, with headings and a tidy layout instead of a wall of text.

Write my monthly investor update as a Word doc (.docx) from these bullets.
Use clear section headings and keep the tone confident and plain.
- Revenue up 22% month over month
- Signed 3 enterprise pilots
- Hired our first designer
- 14 months of runway left
- Main risk right now is churn, and here is what we are doing about it

3. The spreadsheet fixer (.xlsx)

Drop in a messy export and it cleans it up, lines up the columns, adds the totals and writes the formulas. Attach your file (CSV or Excel) in the same message, then paste this.

Clean this up into a proper spreadsheet (.xlsx).
Fix the columns, remove the blank rows, make the formatting consistent,
and add a totals row with real formulas (not typed-in numbers).
Then give me a one-line summary of what the numbers say.

4. The contract reader (.pdf)

Forty pages in, five bullets out, and it flags the one clause most likely to bite you. Attach the PDF, then paste this. Use it to get oriented fast, not as legal advice.

Read this contract and give me:
1. A 5-bullet plain-English summary of what I am agreeing to.
2. The single riskiest clause for me, quoted, with why it is risky.
3. Any auto-renewal, price increase, or termination terms I should know.
Keep it simple. I am not a lawyer.

5. The form filler (.pdf)

The one nobody mentions. It fills out the boring forms too. Attach a fillable PDF, give it your details, and it fills the fields for you.

Fill out this PDF form for me using these details, and give it back ready to sign:
- Full name: [your name]
- Company: [your company]
- Email: [your email]
- Date: today
- For anything else it asks, use what you can and flag what you cannot.

Two things that make these work better

• Be specific once, then iterate. The first output is a draft, not the final. Say "make slide 3 punchier" or "shorten the summary" and it reworks just that part.
• Give it your real context. Paste your actual bullets, attach your actual file. The prompts above are templates. The magic is your information going in, a finished document coming out.

That is the setup. Five lines, one app, no new hires. If it was useful, the newsletter is where I send the next one before it hits YouTube.