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Pick Your First AI Automation
Most people start too big with AI. They try to automate a whole business process, connect tools, rebuild their stack, or pick the “perfect” AI tool. That is usually the wrong first move. The better first move is smaller: Pick one annoying recurring task and turn it into one useful AI output. No integrations. No setup. No new software decision. Just one repeat task, one clear input, and one output you can review. Good first examples: - Weekly notes into a cleaner status update - A long email thread into a short summary and draft reply - Meeting notes into decisions and next actions - Vendor quotes into a simple comparison - A rough idea into an outline and checklist The rule is simple: If AI can prepare a better first draft and a human can still approve the final result, it is probably a good first workflow. If it touches money, legal decisions, HR, customer promises, or sensitive data, keep a human approval step in the middle. Start here: 1. Pick one recurring task. 2. Write what you usually give AI. 3. Write what output you want back. 4. Run it once with safe input. 5. Save the prompt if it works. You are done when you have one small AI output you would actually use. If your mind goes blank, use weekly reporting as the first test: Input: rough notes, wins, blockers, next steps. Output: a clean update you could send to a partner, client, or team. If you want feedback, post your first task in the “Post Your First AI Task” thread.
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Post Your First AI Task
Use this thread to share one small AI result without posting private business information. Start with one repeated task. Try the workflow. Then share: • Task: What repeated task did you try? • Before: What made the old way slow or annoying? • AI output: What did AI prepare? • Human check: What did you verify, change, or reject? • Result: Did it save time, improve clarity, or show that the workflow was not ready? • Next step: Keep, fix, pause, or remove? Example: • Task: Turn meeting notes into follow-up actions. • Before: Actions were scattered across a page of notes. • AI output: A draft list of owners, due dates, and open questions. • Human check: Two due dates were not agreed, so they were changed to “confirm date.” • Result: The follow-up draft was faster to review, but it still needed a human before sending. • Next step: Keep the workflow and improve the instruction about unconfirmed dates. AI can prepare the work. A human still owns the decision. Do not include customer names, personal data, passwords, API keys, contracts, private financial details, or confidential company material.
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Start Here: Your First 10 Minutes
New here? Start with one small win. Do this: 1. Open the Classroom. 2. Start with the course called Start Here. 3. Pick one task you want AI to help with. 4. Post that task in the community. Good first tasks: - Draft an email reply. - Turn notes into a checklist. - Summarize a meeting. - Make a list of next steps. Do not try to learn everything today. Pick one task. Get one win. Get the practical AI workflows and examples here: https://10xeveryday.beehiiv.com/?utm_source=skool&utm_medium=community_post&utm_campaign=always_on_growth&utm_content=pinned_start_here
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When an automation says it worked but the real result never shows up, what would help you most?
A. A simple checklist to catch the failure B. A second set of eyes on the workflow C. Help fixing or rebuilding it D. None of these. I would handle it myself Create a new post titled A, B, C, or D, and repeat the letter in the post. You can also add one sentence about what failed.
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When an AI Chat Keeps Bringing Back Old Facts
You changed the date from Friday to Thursday and cut the budget from $1,500 to $900. But the AI chat keeps bringing Friday and the bigger budget back like two guests nobody invited. Correcting it again can make the thread even messier. The old facts are still sitting beside the new ones, and your next request gives the chat one more thing to sort out. A cleaner move is to make a short handoff note and start fresh. This works because the note separates current facts from discarded ones before the new chat receives its first request. Imagine you are planning a client open house. Ask the old chat for this: Current facts - The event is Thursday. - The budget is $900. - The guest list is about 25 people. Discarded facts - Friday is no longer the event date. - The old $1,500 budget no longer applies. Open question - Use the office or rent the small event room? Next task - Compare those two locations within the $900 budget. Now the new chat does not have to guess which version won. Try this with one chat that has become hard to correct. Use only an AI tool approved for the information involved. Copy this prompt: Create a handoff note for a fresh AI chat. Use four sections: Current facts, Discarded facts, Open questions, and Next task. Keep only facts supported by this conversation. If two details conflict, put the unresolved conflict under Open questions. Do not invent missing information. Keep the note under 200 words. If your mind goes blank, use the last detail you corrected as your starting point. Set a ten-minute timer. Review the note, fix anything wrong, and redact private customer, employee, financial, medical, legal, or account details. Then paste the clean version into a new chat and ask it to repeat the current date, budget, open question, and next task. Finish line: the fresh chat gets all four right.
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