Well, Actually, Your 'Useless' Skills Are Now a Product. Twenty Times Over.
City People Online catalogues twenty practical methods for monetising existing competencies through AI augmentation. The framework centres on three mechanisms: productising skills one already possesses, accelerating delivery of current services, and identifying market gaps that AI enables a single operator to fill. No new skills required. Merely new packaging.
This teaches the principle of leverage over novelty. The reader should stop seeking exotic AI competencies and instead audit what they already do, then ask which portion a machine can execute, accelerate, or scale. Your competitive advantage was never the task itself. It was the judgment of which tasks matter.
City People Online assembled this taxonomy. The article does not name individual practitioners, so we cannot attribute specific revenue figures to particular case studies. The source is general guidance, not verified reporting.
Step 1: List five tasks you perform weekly in your current employment. Expected outcome: a written inventory of your actual, not aspirational, competencies. Step 2: For each task, prompt a free consumer tool such as ChatGPT or Claude with this exact formulation: 'What AI tool could complete 80 percent of this task, and what 20 percent still requires human judgment?' Expected outcome: a specific pairing of automation and retained expertise. Step 3: Select one task and draft a one-page service description offering the human judgment portion as a standalone product. Expected outcome: a prototype offering you could list on a freelance platform or pitch to one existing contact.