Automating Your Work With AI: Start With These Five Tasks
June 9, 2026 · 7 min read
Automation fails when it starts too ambitious. Begin with tasks you already do identically every time.
File and rename
Document sorting and naming is boring, deterministic, and instantly satisfying.
Summarize inbound
Reports, tickets, and applications compress into a fixed template well.
Draft recurring documents
Weekly updates and standard emails are ideal templates.
Data entry
Extracting structured fields from PDFs replaces the most soul-destroying task in most jobs.