As of 13 August 2026, AI can identify freelance services you could sell from your existing skills.

What to actually do

1. Do it yourself

   The route this page recommends

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current CV, LinkedIn profile and portfolio or work samples, then copy the relevant work history, skills, tools, results and constraints into the matching sections of the prompt.
   2. Paste the completed prompt into a chatbot and ask it to produce the service list, evidence links, learning gaps and real-world tests in the requested format.
   3. Copy the proposed services into a shortlist and compare every stated skill, result and qualification against your CV and work samples, deleting any claim you cannot prove.
   4. For each remaining service, write a short test offer and send it to relevant contacts, former colleagues or potential UK clients, then record whether they describe the problem as real and ask for more detail.
   5. Use the responses and your own available time to choose one service to test, then define its deliverables, boundaries and evidence before publishing a freelance profile.

   Prompt

   I want to identify freelance services I could credibly sell from my existing skills. Use only the information I provide and do not invent achievements, qualifications, clients or results.
   
   My background:
   [Paste your CV, LinkedIn summary or work history]
   
   Skills, software and tasks I can use confidently:
   [List them]
   
   Work examples or outcomes I can show, with any evidence:
   [List them]
   
   Industries or types of client I understand:
   [List them, or say none]
   
   What I do not want to do:
   [List tasks, industries or working arrangements]
   
   My available time, preferred working pattern and location:
   [Describe them]
   
   My income or work preferences:
   [Describe them, or say undecided]
   
   Give me 5 to 8 possible freelance services. For each one, state the exact client problem, the deliverable I would provide, the skills and evidence from my information that support it, the type of UK client most likely to need it, and what I would still need to learn. Separate services that are immediately credible from services that need more evidence or training. Do not claim that any service is profitable or in demand without evidence. Finish with the 3 strongest options, the assumptions behind each, and a small real-world test I can run before creating a profile or buying tools.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.