Automate Your Day

A useful AI automation is not a magic switch. It is a small pipeline, and each step has a clear owner.

1. Pick one recurring task that drains an hour a week.
2. Write the steps a human would take, in plain English.
3. Mark each: AI prepares, software enforces a rule, or a human approves.
4. Build the AI prep first. Run it on last week's data; review by hand.
5. Add the software rules — "flag low confidence," "never send to more than 20 people."
6. Only after clean runs, let the AI take a small, reversible action alone.

Three workflows where this works reliably now:

• Email triage: AI labels, summarizes, drafts replies. You send.
• Meeting digest: AI turns a transcript into decisions, actions, owners. You confirm.
• Inbound research: AI reads three sources and produces a one-page brief. You decide.

The real win is not "AI does my job." It is "AI does the predictable 60% so the hour I spend goes to the 40% that needs me."