At a glance
- Three MCP skills now live on MCP Market: ClickUp Task Builder ($19), Strategic Voice Framework ($19), MCP Market Publisher ($19)
- All three were built for internal use first — none were designed to sell
- ClickUp Task Builder has Claude create every ClickUp task with the same required fields
- Strategic Voice Framework makes Claude write in your voice and holds you to it
- MCP Market Publisher standardizes the process of listing a skill — born from the friction of doing it the first time
- The iterative process — perfecting, adjusting, improving — made all the difference
Northlight Advisory Services has three MCP skills listed on MCP Market: ClickUp Task Builder ($19), Strategic Voice Framework ($19), and MCP Market Publisher ($19). None of them were designed to be products. Each one started as something I built to make running a one-person advisory practice more manageable — wearing 72 hats, needing to be skilled in a lot of topics, needing to produce real work every day.
MCP — short for Model Context Protocol, the open standard Anthropic released in late 2024 — is what makes this kind of extensibility possible. Instead of building integrations from scratch every time, MCP gives AI assistants like Claude a standard way to connect to external tools, data, and processes. The skills market is a direct consequence of that: if the protocol is standardized, the tools built on top of it can be shared.
They worked well enough that it felt wrong not to share them.
Why did we list on MCP Market?
Northlight Advisory Services listed on MCP Market because the infrastructure was already there — Stripe integration, listing pages, discovery — without having to build a payment system. MCP Market has a strong reputation in the MCP community and is where people already look for skills. For tools this specific, being findable in the right place matters more than owning the transaction layer.
Honestly? It was easy.
I had downloaded something from MCP Market before and they sent an email saying Market was opening for sellers. They handled the infrastructure — Stripe integration, listing pages, discovery. I didn’t have to build a payment system or a seller portal. They have a good reputation in the MCP community and they’re a real place where people already go to find skills. For tools this specific, being where people are already looking matters more than owning the transaction layer.
So we listed.
What does each skill actually do?
Three skills: ClickUp Task Builder ($19) has Claude create complete ClickUp tasks every time: start date, due date, assignee, priority and a detailed description. Strategic Voice Framework ($19) applies your specific brand voice when Claude drafts content. MCP Market Publisher ($19) standardises the process of preparing and listing a skill on MCP Market, eliminating the friction of learning it fresh each time.
ClickUp Task Builder — $19
Has Claude build complete ClickUp tasks every time. Every task gets a start date, due date, assignee, priority and a description detailed enough to act on without follow-up questions. It also includes a content calendar pattern for LinkedIn, Threads, newsletter and blog.
Running a solo advisory practice means there’s no project manager checking the queue and no ops person handling it. You’re it. ClickUp Task Builder holds every task to the same standard, so nothing is left half-built and each one can be picked up later without guessing what it meant.
Strategic Voice Framework — $19
Captures your specific brand voice and applies it consistently when Claude drafts posts, blog content, or anything else you write. You fill in the template with real examples from your own writing, and Claude drafts from those, not from a generic AI voice.
This one solves the problem I had before it existed: Claude would draft content in a competent, professional voice. Just not mine. And then I’d spend time editing it back toward how I actually sound. The bigger problem is what happens if you don’t catch it — you publish content that reads like everyone else using the same AI prompt templates. The internet is already full of that. I don’t want to add to it.
Strategic Voice Framework means Claude drafts in my voice from the start. On the days when I’m rushing, that is worth a lot: I’m editing a draft that already sounds like me, not rebuilding one that doesn’t.
MCP Market Publisher — $19
Standardizes the process of preparing and listing a skill on MCP Market — what's required, in what format, in what order. Came directly from the friction of doing it the first time without a template.
The first time you do something, you figure it out. The second time, you shouldn’t have to figure it out again. MCP Market Publisher is the standardized process that came out of learning the hard way what listing a skill actually requires. Why make it difficult when you can make it repeatable?
What did the iterative process actually look like?
None of the skills shipped in final form the first time. What made them genuinely useful rather than merely functional was returning after using them in real work, finding what wasn't working, and adjusting — repeatedly, until the tool ran without friction. Most people stop at functional. The gap between functional and genuinely useful is where the real work happens, and that gap only closes through use, not design.
None of these skills shipped in their final form the first time. What made them good — actually useful, not just functional — was the iteration:
- Starting with good skills and good prompts
- Really spending time to get them right, not just good enough
- Coming back after using them in real work and adjusting based on what wasn’t working
- Repeating that cycle until the tool was doing what it was supposed to do without friction
That iterative process takes time. It also takes a willingness to go back and change something you already thought was done. Most people stop at “functional.” The gap between functional and genuinely useful is where the real work happens.
The honest version: I didn't know these tools were good enough to sell until I'd been using them long enough to notice what life was like without them. That's usually when something becomes worth sharing — not when it's built, but when you've felt the absence of it.
Who are these skills for?
For solo operators, consultants, and fractional professionals managing many things at once who can't afford to spend cognitive energy on task setup, voice consistency, or publishing process every day. If you have a team handling your task setup, brand voice, and workflows, you probably don't need them. If you're wearing those hats yourself, these give some of that time back.
They’re for solo operators, consultants, and fractional professionals who are doing a lot of different things at once and can’t afford to spend cognitive energy on task setup, consistency, or process every single day.
If you have a project manager setting up your tasks, a brand strategist managing your voice, and an ops person building your publishing workflows — you probably don’t need these. But if you’re wearing those hats yourself, along with the other 69, these are the tools that give them back some of their time.
What’s next for the Northlight Skills Market?
More skills will follow as tools built for internal use at Northlight Advisory Services become good enough to be worth sharing externally. The Skills Market isn't a product roadmap with planned releases — it's what happens when something built internally becomes useful enough that keeping it private feels like a waste. Current listings at mcpmarket.com/sellers/northlight-skills.
We listed these three because they were ready. More will follow as we build tools for ourselves that turn out to be worth sharing. The Skills Market isn’t a product roadmap with planned releases — it’s what happens when something we use internally becomes good enough that keeping it to ourselves feels like a waste.
A related read: Your Agents Need a Chain of Command. You can browse the current listings at mcpmarket.com/sellers/northlight-skills. The full case study on how the Skills Market was built is on the Work page.