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Every piece I have written about handing repeating work to AI agents, and the free prompt or checklist each one points at. No theory that has not already run in my own business.

Updated 26 August 2026 · 11 articles · 8 free tools
ArticlesWritten for the One Time Automation list first, rewritten here to read on their own. Each one ends at the tool it discusses.
Story · 26 Aug 2026

A Job With Employees Attached

I went away for a few days and did not check in. When I came back, almost nothing had moved. Not because the people around me are not good.

5 minThe Without-Me Worksheet
Story · 19 Aug 2026

I Checked On My Agent at 6am on a Saturday

Nothing was wrong. I knew nothing would be wrong. I watched it anyway, the way you check on a kid at the pool.

4 minThe AI Org Chart
Story · 18 Aug 2026

You Don't Need a Bigger Team

A Harvard lab capped at twenty researchers stopped trying to hire past the cap and replicated the work instead. Every small business hits the same ceiling.

4 minThe Toolshed
Story · 13 Aug 2026

Your Brain Holds Seven Things. Your AI Does Not.

By item eight on my grocery list I have lost item two. AI memory is not a bigger version of mine. It works on different rules.

4 minThe Toolshed
Prompt of the Week · 12 Aug 2026

What Was Actually Decided

The meeting was good. Everyone agreed. Two weeks later nobody can name what was decided. That is not a memory problem.

5 minThe Pattern Pass
Story · 11 Aug 2026

Ten Minutes, Forty Times a Week

Do it once and it costs you nothing. Do it forty times a week and call it part of the job. That is the time theft.

3 minThe Time-Leak Checklist
Prompt of the Week · 5 Aug 2026

The Message You Have Been Sitting On

I closed a great deal and never asked for the referral. When I finally sent the message, they had a friend who had been looking for six months.

4 minWrite The Message You're Avoiding
Story · 4 Aug 2026

I Got Sick for Two Days and My Business Did Not Notice

I used to keep a folder of prompts. It was a Rolodex, and I was the index. Nothing in it ran unless I was upright and remembering.

5 minThe Skills 101 Starter
Story · 30 Jul 2026

Hire, or Build a Machine

Every business hits the same wall: more work than hours. There are two answers to that, and almost nobody uses the second one.

4 minThe Four Buckets Sort
Prompt of the Week · 29 Jul 2026

Four Buckets: Read Your Week Back to Yourself

The prompt I run on myself every other week. It has never once told me what I expected. Bucket four is why it is worth ten minutes.

5 minThe Rule Page
Story · 28 Jul 2026

Does Your AI Have a Job?

A chat window waits for you. Something with a job does not. That one difference separates people who got hours back from people who got faster at typing.

4 minThe Four Buckets Sort
Free toolsEvery prompt, checklist and worksheet the articles point at. All free, all self-serve, copy buttons on the page. Nothing here needs a card, an install, or a call.
Checklist

The Time-Leak Checklist

Ten spots where your day gets taken from you a few minutes at a time, and the one job you hand an agent to shut each one.

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Worksheet

The Without-Me Worksheet

Four questions to run on any task that still depends on you, before deciding whether it needs a person, a rule, or an agent.

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Two prompts

The Rule Page

Sort your week into four buckets, then turn the item that costs you most into a written rule somebody else could build from.

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Two prompts

Write The Message You're Avoiding

One drafts the hard message you keep putting off. The other preps you for what comes back.

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Prompt

The Pattern Pass

One meeting tells you what was said. A month of them tells you what keeps not getting decided and who is overloaded.

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Starter

The Skills 101 Starter

Walks your own skill builder through turning something you keep retyping into a skill that is installed, tested, and running.

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Prompt

The Writing Desk

Learns how you actually write from writing you have already sent, then drafts anything that matters so it sounds like you.

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Three prompts

Skills, Automation, Multiplier

Save a solved conversation as a skill. Score whether a task is even worth automating. Split one job across several agents running at once.

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Reference

The AI Org Chart

Every agent role in a finished system, mapped like employees, and what each one owns. The picture the tools above build toward.

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Index

The Toolshed

The same tools in build order rather than by date. Start at the top if you are new, because running number five before number three usually means redoing number five.

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The Room

Autonomous Operators

You have automated one thing. Now own the whole system. The room for people who build rather than browse. Doors open once it is ready.

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