I built 7 assistants to run the parts of my truck I couldn't clone myself.
Free, real, and running in my own business right now — not a demo. Here's what they do and how to get them running in yours today.
Two years ago I was the only employee my food truck had that mattered — cooking on the line, answering every text myself, and writing the week's Instagram posts at midnight because that was the only time I had.
Every new hire got the same training speech, from memory, a little different every time. Every catering inquiry sat in my messages until I had a free hour, which some weeks never came. I knew my truck was busy. I couldn't have told you, off the top of my head, whether it was actually profitable that week.
The problem was never that I didn't know my business. It was that I was the only place any of that knowledge lived.
So I started handing pieces of it to AI — not as a novelty, but as seven specific, boring, repeated jobs I was tired of doing from scratch every time. Writing SOPs. Reviewing my numbers. Planning content. Pricing catering. Each one started as me solving my own headache.
Those seven are what's below. They're free, they're the exact ones running in Charm City Eats right now, and they take about ten minutes each to set up.
Seven jobs, off your plate, in about ten minutes each
Each one is a real Claude Skill — install once, use in any conversation, forever.
Interviews you the way you'd explain a task to a new hire, then drafts the SOP or checklist from your own answers — no blank page, no re-explaining it next time you hire.
A 15-minute Monday conversation that walks through your real numbers — booking conversion, revenue per shift, labor and food cost percentage, repeat rate, review rate — and closes with one action, not ten.
One guided interview about your truck, your customers, and your voice — comes back with your brand voice guide, content pillars, and a real 30-day posting calendar.
Give it one upcoming stop, get back ready-to-post captions for every platform in your own voice — hype, professional, and funny versions included.
Hand it your raw week's schedule, get back platform-ready posts plus the two calls to action you actually want — save the schedule, book catering.
Turns a catering opportunity into a full outreach set — posts, an email, a DM script, and a referral offer — so pitching a new venue isn't its own project every time.
Walks the real math on a booking — guest count, food cost, labor, fuel, packaging — and ends with one verdict: book it, it's fair, negotiate, or walk away.
How to actually get these running
Open Claude, go to Skills. Settings → Capabilities → Skills, then click Add.
Paste one in. Name, description, and the instructions — that's the whole setup, no coding.
Use it in any chat. Say what you want in plain words, type a backslash, and pick the skill from the list.
Want all 7 sent to your inbox?
Drop your email and I'll send the install-ready version of all 7 Skills, plus the setup checklist.
These 7 are the free half.
The other half is the whole system these skills plug into — the booking pipeline, the location automations, the retention loop, all of it, built for a food truck specifically.
Get the free system at link.foodtruckaround.com