Whether you are just starting out or are not in a technical role at all, you likely already have the skills you need to build your own tools. If you have ever thought “I’m not technical enough to build that,” this post is for you.
Let me introduce the team. We are lawyers, program managers, and business professionals—not engineers. A large part of our work is often repetitive, like reviewing the same kinds of contracts over and over or answering the same legal questions, and our prior guidance is frequently recycled. These are problems AI could help solve, but we lacked confidence in how to build the right tools.
That is where GitHub Copilot CLI came in. We asked for what we wanted in plain language, plugged into our repos, and saw real changes fast. “I could never code” turned into “I just built something,” and that habit spread on its own until every one of us was building something.
What follows are two real accounts of people who did exactly that. Plus, watch the videos for two additional stories.
Why I built an internal drafting style guide
