> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://afrodynamics.com/thoughts/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Get your grill on - Put AI to work for your business - URL: https://afrodynamics.com/thoughts/get-your-grill-on-put-ai-to-work-for-your-business/ - Published: 2026-10-17T16:40:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-20T08:12:32.000Z - Author: Ali Kibao One of the most impactful [skills](https://afrodynamics.com/thoughts/ai-skills-what-are-they-and-why-should-you-learn-about-them/#what-is-a-skill) I've gotten from the internet is a skill called [grill-me, by Matt Pocock](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/grill-me?ref=afrodynamics.com). Let me tell you how this skill made so much difference in my day-to-day life, and then I'll tell you why I think an adaptation of this can be a big unlock for how you use AI to grow your business. ## I let the AI loose I've been using AI tools for my day job to build software, create features, debug, etc. In the beginning, I would handhold the AI through the whole process, prompting it at each step, we all did in the early days, AIs were dumb. Then we got to a place where the AI tools got much, much smarter. You would hand it a task, give it an expected outcome, and it would get on with it. I did an experiment with a personal fitness app I had. I wanted all these features that I could envision working in the app, and I created a bunch of tickets, basically tasks, that weren't very well defined. But they were tickets that showed each feature I wanted. And I let the AI loose, picking five tickets at a time to go and do them. Now, what was happening here is that I was asking the AI to interpret what the ticket meant. Granted, I hadn't clearly defined what the outcome should be. But in many cases, I didn't even know for sure what I wanted that to be. And lo and behold, it did about 50 or so tickets autonomously, deploying them, publishing them to the app. Each day I would open the mobile app and I'd be thinking, "Oh wow, that's new. I've never seen that before. I don't know how it got there. I don't know what it means, and I have no idea why it's here and how to use it." Over time, the app became something completely unrecognisable. And you see this with AI, where if it starts to take a path that is somewhat wrong early on, the problems compound as you go. Think about taking an image, giving it to an AI and saying, "Hey, create this image exactly without changing anything." Then you take the output and ask it to do that over and over again. You can end up with something completely unrecognisable from the original image. The little changes are subtle, but they compound over time. The same applies to software. You can get something unrecognisable that you might not have wanted in the first place. ## Getting aligned before the work starts Then I came across grill-me. I put it in place so that the AI tools I use and I would be aligned before the work started. Now, of course, one way to align is to clearly articulate the expected outcome of a task and how that can be verified. That's one way to do it, and it's one of the better ways to do it. But often you might not have considered all the possibilities. So grill-me asks clarifying questions. Take a contact form on your website. The expected outcome would be, "Hey, I want a contact form on the website. Users should be able to submit their names, email and telephone number. And that form should work." You can prove that it works by completing the form, submitting it and making sure it's connected to the CRM, your customer management system, and the results arrive there. That's reasonable. When you use a skill like grill-me, however, it asks you things like: - Do you want full names, or separate first and last names? - Which fields are required when submitting? - What kind of confirmation would you like? These are questions that you might not otherwise have thought about. And as a result of answering them, the task becomes much more defined. ## You can hear the tune in your head So I'm taking this and applying it to business planning, especially when you're planning to use AI tools. Because you can go and describe what you want, but most of us really suck at describing what we want. Not only to AIs, but even to other humans, right? It's part of why onboarding a new employee to a business usually takes a long time. You have the curse of knowledge. You know everything in your mind, and it's very clear to you. Think of the example of [tappers and listeners](https://stanfordmag.org/contents/getting-attention?ref=afrodynamics.com). You tap out a song for someone to guess. You can hear the tune in your head, but the other person only hears the taps. They can't get the full picture. In my [last post about skills](https://afrodynamics.com/thoughts/ai-skills-what-are-they-and-why-should-you-learn-about-them/), I talked about teaching a very smart employee how your business works. This is a way to work out what you need to tell them. ## Try it for your business So that's what the skill I've created, [Give your AI a mission](https://afrodynamics.com/skills/mission/?ref=afrodynamics.com), does. It asks you about the problem you want AI to help with, how your business actually works and what you want the outcome to be. Then it puts that into a brief you can give your AI. You can find it on my [skills page](https://afrodynamics.com/skills/?ref=afrodynamics.com) and give it a test for your business today. Open "Give your AI a mission", click "Copy the skill", paste it into your AI chat and answer its questions.