sboghossian Skill of the Day
Purpose
With nearly a thousand skills in the library, most users encounter only a small fraction through organic use. The Skill of the Day feature creates a daily discovery touchpoint that introduces users to capabilities they have not tried, matched to their persona and current work context.
The goal is habit formation through genuine value delivery — not notification noise. Each featured skill must be something the user can realistically use today.
Selection algorithm
The selection pipeline runs each weekday morning per user.
Step 1 — Filter by persona
- Partner / senior lawyer: restrict to
draft,review,intel,research,efirmcategories. - Associate / mid-level lawyer: all
draft,review,kb,researchskills. - In-house counsel:
draft,review,research,compliance,intel. - Law student (Justinian):
justinian,casesim,academy,kb. - Consumer (Louis Twin):
conversation,safety,kb(consumer-appropriate only).
Step 2 — Filter to production-quality skills only
- Skill
statusmust bedraftedor higher. - Skill body must exceed 200 characters (stub skills are excluded).
- Skills flagged as
internal-onlyoradminare excluded.
Step 3 — Avoid recent exposure
- Exclude any skill featured in the last 7 days for this user.
- Exclude any skill the user has already invoked in the last 30 days.
Step 4 — Weighted scoring
Score each remaining candidate:
| Factor | Weight |
|---|---|
| Trending (high platform-wide usage in past 7 days) | 30% |
| Contextual relevance (matches user's active matter type or recent query topics) | 40% |
| Diversity (not from same sub-category as yesterday's skill) | 20% |
| Recency (newer skills get a small boost) | 10% |
Select the highest-scoring candidate.
Surfacing format
Each Skill of the Day card contains:
- Skill name — human-readable, not the technical ID.
- One-sentence value proposition — what the user can do with it today.
- Concrete example — a mini-scenario showing the skill in action.
- Actions — three CTAs: [Try it] [Read the skill] [Save for later].
Example card
Skill of the Day: Shareholders' Agreement (SHA)
Build a full SHA for your next startup matter — equity split, reserved matters, drag/tag rights, and vesting schedule.
Example: a founder asks you to document a 60/40 split with four-year vesting and a 12-month cliff. This skill drafts the full SHA, flags the valuation and dilution mechanics, and includes DIFC/ADGM-compatible boilerplate.
[Try it] [Read the skill] [Save for later]
Distribution channels
| Channel | Opt-in required | Timing |
|---|---|---|
| In-app notification (bell icon) | No (on by default) | 9:00 AM user's timezone |
| Email digest (weekly summary of 5 skills) | Yes | Monday 9:00 AM |
| Mobile push notification | Yes | 9:00 AM user's timezone |
Weekly email digest batches Monday–Friday selections into a single send, reducing email volume for users who prefer lower-frequency communication.
Engagement tracking
For each Skill of the Day impression, record:
| Event | Meaning |
|---|---|
sotd.shown |
Card was displayed |
sotd.clicked_try |
User clicked "Try it" |
sotd.clicked_read |
User clicked "Read the skill" |
sotd.saved |
User saved for later |
sotd.dismissed |
User explicitly dismissed |
sotd.used_within_7d |
User invoked this skill within 7 days of seeing the card |
The most actionable metric is sotd.used_within_7d — this is the true success signal, not click-through rate.
Quality gates — what not to surface
- Never surface a stub. A skill with only a one-line description teaches nothing and wastes the user's trust.
- Never repeat. The same skill appearing twice in a week signals a broken algorithm. Monitor for this.
- Never ignore context. A corporate M&A skill surfaced to a student doing bar prep is irrelevant. Persona + context filtering is non-negotiable.
- Easy dismissal. If the user dismisses three consecutive Skill of the Day cards, reduce frequency to every other day and flag for algorithm review.
Relationship to Template of the Week
[[unlock-template-of-the-week]] operates on a weekly editorial calendar and features curated document templates. Skill of the Day is algorithmic and daily. They may feature the same underlying skill, but the editorial calendar takes precedence — do not let the algorithm feature a skill already highlighted in that week's Template of the Week.
Related skills
- [[unlock-feature-discovery-by-persona]]
- [[unlock-first-week-progressive-tour]]
- [[unlock-template-of-the-week]]
- [[unlock-power-user-shortcuts]]