You know the one.
The task you do every week that makes you think "there has to be a better way." The meeting notes you type up while the next meeting is already starting. The Friday status update you stitch together from Slack and Jira and memory. The expense receipts you photograph one by one, then type into a spreadsheet, then resubmit because you used the wrong category.
Asana published a study that says 60% of your work week is "work about work." Not the work itself — the admin around it. Updating trackers. Reformatting data between tools. Writing summaries of things that were already summarised.
I run operations at a 1,000-person company. I've felt every one of those tasks. For years.
About a year ago, I started picking them off. One at a time. Not with some grand AI transformation strategy — just with a simple question:
Could I hand this to a prompt and get back something 90% as good?
The answer, embarrassingly often, is yes.
Meeting notes? 90 seconds now. Status updates? Two minutes. Expense reports? I take a photo and it's done. Email triage? I skim a summary instead of reading 87 messages.
None of this took more than an hour to set up. And I'm not a developer.
Every week, I pick one boring task that knowledge workers do and show you exactly how to automate it.
Not theory. Not "10 AI tools you should try." Not a news roundup about what OpenAI announced this week.
Just:
Here's a thing you do → here's how to never do it again.
Each issue ships a kit:
A starter prompt you can copy-paste and use immediately (free)
The full kit — a multi-step prompt chain, a template, workflow files, and a team SOP you can hand to anyone (paid)
The free version is useful on its own. The paid version means you never have to think about that task again.
What you get
Every Tuesday, I pick one task and ship a kit to automate it:
The starter prompt — free, copy-paste, useful on its own
The full kit — a multi-step prompt chain, templates, automation blueprint, and a team SOP (paid)
Every Friday, a quick tip — one prompt or insight you can use in 30 seconds. Always free.
First up:
✂️ The Meeting Notes Machine — 45-min meeting → structured notes, action items, and follow-up email in 90 seconds
👻 The Status Update Ghost — Friday reports that write themselves from your Slack and Jira
🧾 The Receipt Destroyer — photo of a receipt → categorised expense entry, no data entry
📧 The Thread Untangler — 12-message email chain → 3-line summary + draft reply
Who writes this
I'm Marc. I'm a COO. I spend my days in the gap between "AI can do this" and "nobody at this company is using it."
I started automating my own workflows because I was drowning in admin. Now I write up one automation per week — the exact prompts, templates, and setup steps that worked for me.
One less thing
That's the idea. Every week, you open the email, you follow the steps, and you cross one more task off the list of things you'll never do manually again.
Not ten things. Not a productivity system. One thing.
Subscribe and start with the one that annoys you most.