When we started Skyp we confidently focused on the single player experience.

Oh my how things have changed.

Today entire teams are using AI, in ways that are really hard to track. The single player experience seems to mostly exist in Claude Code. Operator just pivoted away from mining CRM data and doing outbound into some kind of teams-based AI tooling. They’re smart people and may be onto something.

I think we’re at the beginning of the next inning in AI: the teams applications. Here’s how I see it.

AI is magical 80% of the time

When you don’t really care, it’s awesome. Write me a poem. Find 100 companies to spam. These things are great for AI.

But when you’re writing a follow up email to a prospect you just spent an hour with on a Zoom, or you actually care about getting meetings from those cold emails you’re sending–it falls just enough short that humans are still required.

This is where vendors exist. They are the harness to guide the AI and make it do the job to be done at 100%. And they do a great job for individuals doing jobs to be done.

Being magical for teams

Teams are a different beast. Remember when Amazon was single player only? Wasn’t long ago that they added family accounts and sharing of Prime. They went 20+ years as single player for a reason: multiplayer is HARD.

But that’s where the innovation is happening. The large AI labs are pushing teams to go multiplayer, though that’s as much to drive revenue growth and protect overuse as it is because of user experience.

For point applications, being magical for a team is really hard. Especially if you started single player.

How we’re doing this at Skyp

Skyp has expanded a lot since I last said anything about it. We launched 3 massive features in the last couple of months alone:

1. LinkedIn outreach, by far our most reqeusted.

2. MCP, by far our most useful (and includes LinkedIn)

3. Slack, a brand new integration where you can run the MCP from within Slack.

But what matters the most is our expansion of our Teams functionality. Because nobody is using these tools in isolation anymore. Everyone wants them to integrate across their team.

Thinking about your product and use cases

As you build out your product offering, consider where AI is going. It’s no longer me doing things that are making me personally more productive. It’s company-wide now.

Trends that I’m seeing are things like shared SKILL.md files with version control (yeah, like in Github) so that a team can share what’s working across the entire team.

It’s centralized systems where there’s a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual–one of my favorite management techniques I took away from my time at Opendoor). In Skyp’s case this is either a founder, motivated AE, or a head of growth. What is it for you?

Getting these use cases right is no small task. And I highly doubt that Anthropic or ChatGPT will figure them out for 80% of the things companies need to get done. That leaves plenty of room for the rest of us.