“ChatGPT just knows me.” I hear this all the time.
And it’s true - after months of conversations, that system has built up a lot of context about how you work, what you need, how you think. The problem? That context lives in ChatGPT. The moment you want to move to a different tool, you’re starting from zero.
That’s vendor lock-in, and it’s one of the biggest risks in how a lot of organizations are using AI right now.
Co-work skills are the way out. Instead of your processes and knowledge being baked into one platform’s memory, you own them. You define how a task gets done, what context it needs, how to communicate about your product - and that lives in a skill you control and can move anywhere.
The AI landscape is changing every few weeks. As business leaders, we have to be able to use whatever technology is right for the moment. Owning your skills is the first step to not being held hostage by the platform you happened to start with.