AutoPilot Plan · Guide, Oct 20, 2026

How to Find the 5 Tasks in Your Week That AI Should Do (A 30-Minute Audit)

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Everyone says "use AI." Very few people say which part of your week to hand over first. This guide walks you through a 30-minute audit that ends with a ranked shortlist of tasks to automate, plus a prompt to start each one today.

Step 1: List your last week (10 minutes)

Open your calendar, sent email, and to-do app. Write down every task you did more than twice last week. Don't filter yet. Typical entries:

Answering the same customer questions
Writing social posts or listing descriptions
Copying data between a form, a spreadsheet, and an email
Summarizing calls or meetings
Chasing invoices or follow-ups

Step 2: Score each task (10 minutes)

Give each task three quick scores from 1 to 3:

Question	1	3
How often?	monthly	daily
How long each time?	<5 min	30+ min
How rule-based?	needs judgment every time	same steps every time

Multiply the three scores. Anything 12 or higher is a strong automation candidate.

Step 3: Match each task to a tool type (5 minutes)

Writing and rewriting (posts, replies, descriptions): a chat assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok with a saved prompt.
Moving data between apps (form → sheet → email): a no-code workflow tool such as Zapier, Make, or n8n (n8n has a free self-hosted edition).
Multi-step jobs (read an inbox, sort it, draft replies): a simple AI agent that chains the two.

Step 4: Start with one copy-paste prompt (5 minutes)

Pick your top-scoring writing task and paste this into your AI assistant:

You are my assistant for [TASK]. Here are 3 examples of how I did it before: [PASTE EXAMPLES]. Learn my tone and format. Each time I give you [INPUT], produce the output in the same style. Ask me one question if anything is unclear.

Save the prompt somewhere you can reuse it. That alone usually saves an hour a week.

Watch-outs

Don't paste passwords, client financials, or private data into tools you haven't checked.
Review AI output before it reaches a customer for the first two weeks.
Track the time saved: if a task isn't saving at least 15 minutes a week, drop it.

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