Claude skills — decks & documents¶
Three Claude skills write the branded artifacts for you: binabik-deck produces a PowerPoint deck, binabik-word a Word document, and binabik-offer a customer offer. You describe what it should say; the skill lays it out in the brand template, with the right fonts, colours, layouts and styles.
Use them when you have the content but not the hour it takes to lay it out. Keep using the templates directly when you would rather write in PowerPoint or Word yourself.
The folder holds one .skill file per skill. A .skill file is just a zipped
folder of instructions Claude reads — nothing to install on your machine, nothing
that runs on its own.
The three brand fonts still have to be installed
A skill writes a real .pptx or .docx that uses Space Grotesk, Plus Jakarta
Sans and JetBrains Mono. If those are not on your machine, PowerPoint and Word
substitute silently: the text re-flows, lines break in new places, and a title
that fitted on two lines becomes three. Two minutes, once →
Brand — fonts & style.
Adding a skill to Claude¶
- Download the
.skillfile from the Drive folder above. - In the Claude app, open Settings → Capabilities → Skills and upload it.
- Ask for what you want in plain language. You do not need to name the skill: "make me an offer deck for Planzer" or "turn these notes into a Binabik white paper" is enough for Claude to pick it up.
If you already have an older binabik-deck, upload the new file over it. The
current one matches the PowerPoint template; versions from before August 2026 used
Arial and slightly different reds, and would build an offer from scratch rather
than using the offer template.
binabik-deck¶
Builds a deck that is not an offer: feasibility studies, technical and project presentations, procurement responses, investor and conference decks, or a single slide to drop into a deck you already have.
What it gives you beyond a blank template:
- The eight layouts, chosen for you — cover, section divider, title and content, two panels, three cards, figure, statement, closing.
- The offer shapes the template does not draw: numbered milestone rows with price pills, cost tables that add up, a 2x2 panel grid.
- The commercial conventions we have learned to hold to: what belongs in a
"not in scope at this stage" panel, how to phrase safety and IP without
promising certification work we do not do, and prices marked indicative until
they are firm. It leaves
[PLACEHOLDER]in brackets rather than inventing a number or a date, and tells you which ones it left.
binabik-offer¶
Fills the offer template for one customer: a customer offer or Proof of Concept proposal.
It is the one skill that mostly does not write. Fifteen of the template's twenty-two slides are the commercial position, and the skill carries them through untouched, so an offer cannot quietly drop a protection or reword one. What it does:
- Asks first, and will not start without the two answers that matter: the milestones with a name, a deliverable and a price each, and who will run the project.
- Fills the seven slides that change, and keeps the summary honest: the milestone count and the total on slide 2 are taken from the price table, so the two cannot disagree.
- Keeps one contact page. The person running the project ends up as the last page before the closing slide, and the other four are deleted.
- Reports every bracket it left, so you know what is still open before you send.
binabik-word¶
Builds a document: white papers, technical and project reports, feasibility studies, concept notes, memos, funding-programme answers.
- The template's skeleton is kept — cover, abstract, contents, the body pages that carry the header and footer, and the back page.
- Everything is a named Word style, so the result is as editable as a hand-written document and can be restyled later in one place.
- The contents page builds itself. Word offers to update the field when the document opens, so the headings and page numbers are right.
- The two box types are used the way they are meant to be: the red-bar box amplifies a claim, the slate-bar box concedes a limit or flags a number as modelled rather than measured.
Two things to keep doing yourself¶
Read it before it goes out. A skill will not notice that a claim is too strong for the customer in front of you, and text that overflows a panel is obvious to a reader and invisible to the machine. Open the file, page through it.
Decide the numbers. Prices, dates and figures come from you. Anything left in
[brackets] is a question the skill could not answer, not a formatting artifact.