{
 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "portfolio-case-study-writer",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Portfolio case study writer",
 "summary": "Turn your project notes and results into a portfolio case study. Get a draft with the problem, your role, process, solution and lessons.",
 "headline": "Portfolio case study writer",
 "subhead": "Share a project summary, your role, key decisions and measured results. It expands those facts into a clear story for your portfolio. You get a case study covering the problem, process, solution and lessons, plus a list of useful visuals.",
 "job": {
  "id": "find-a-job",
  "name": "Prepare job applications"
 },
 "level": "beginner",
 "thinking": "medium",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-11-03",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "source_text",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Source text",
   "what": "a long source in full: an article, a video or talk transcript, or notes from a book, with its title, author and link"
  },
  {
   "type": "brief",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Brief",
   "what": "a creative brief: goal, audience, angle, offer, mandatory claims (by ID), formats"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Project notes with your role, decisions and constraints.",
  "Real results, dates and available screenshots or work samples."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A structured portfolio case study draft.",
  "A results section based on supplied evidence.",
  "A visual asset list and lessons learned."
 ],
 "use_when": [],
 "skip_when": [
  "You only want to polish a resume line: use the Resume and job application builder skill, or ask your AI to rewrite the bullet.",
  "You have no notes or results yet: write down what you did, when, and what changed, then come back.",
  "You need a full portfolio website built: use a site builder, then paste this draft into it."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your project notes, with your role, dates and team size",
   "The problem and the choices you made",
   "Real results you can back up (optional)",
   "Screenshots or work samples you have (optional)"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Quick Facts",
    "contains": "Your role, company, timeline, team and a one-line result, taken from your notes."
   },
   {
    "name": "Overview",
    "contains": "A short summary of the project in two or three sentences."
   },
   {
    "name": "Problem",
    "contains": "The context, the challenge and what needed to be solved."
   },
   {
    "name": "Process",
    "contains": "Your research, approach and key decisions, with the reason for each."
   },
   {
    "name": "Solution",
    "contains": "What you built or delivered, with notes on the visuals that go with it."
   },
   {
    "name": "Results",
    "contains": "The impact you gave evidence for, in a table where you have before and after numbers."
   },
   {
    "name": "Learnings",
    "contains": "What worked, what you would change and what you learned."
   },
   {
    "name": "Visual Asset List",
    "contains": "The images and screenshots you should add to the page."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and paste in the skill instructions.",
  "Paste your project notes: your role, dates, team, the problem, your choices and any results.",
  "Say which role the case study is for, such as designer, product manager, engineer or marketer.",
  "Check the draft. Fill any gap marked as missing with a real fact, and cut anything you cannot back up.",
  "Add your screenshots using the visual asset list. No code or paid tool is needed.",
  "Next, tailor the case study to the role you want and practise a 2-minute walkthrough for interviews."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Resume and job application builder",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/resume-job-application-builder",
   "why": "Resume and job application builder"
  },
  {
   "name": "Technical interview coach",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/technical-interview-practice",
   "why": "Technical interview coach"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Daniel (San) Ávila",
  "repo": "davila7/claude-code-templates",
  "url": "https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/7d85535533914ff0880945570a94fcbec4adc042/cli-tool/components/skills/career/portfolio-case-study-writer",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "portfolio-case-study-writer",
  "commit": "7d85535533914ff0880945570a94fcbec4adc042"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "portfolio-case-study-writer skill",
   "by": "Daniel (San) Ávila",
   "url": "https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/7d85535533914ff0880945570a94fcbec4adc042/cli-tool/components/skills/career/portfolio-case-study-writer",
   "used": "Copied under the MIT licence. We gave it a plain name. We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps. We refreshed those generated sections from the catalogue inputs and next-step links."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "LICENSE"
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/portfolio-case-study-writer",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/portfolio-case-study-writer.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/portfolio-case-study-writer.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/portfolio-case-study-writer/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/portfolio-case-study-writer.zip",
  "api_item": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/items/portfolio-case-study-writer",
  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/portfolio-case-study-writer",
  "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp"
 }
}