Each of these runs in our own business every weekday. Start with the one that eats most of your week, and keep your hand on anything a customer will read.
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Make a list of the jobs you do every day, the same way, and would happily never do again. In a small service business it’s usually the same short list: email, leads, unpaid invoices, the questions customers keep asking, and knowing whether any of it got done.
Here’s what each of those looks like when an AI agent does it. Each example below is one we run ourselves.
Every new email gets sorted, so the ones that need you are on top. For the ones that need an answer, the agent writes a draft using your own prices and wording, and leaves it in your drafts folder. You read it, change a word if you want, and press send.
Ours: drafts for our sales inbox are ready at 8:40 every morning. That job can’t send email at all. It only writes drafts.
When someone asks for a price, agrees to a deal or pays, the proof is somewhere in your email. The agent reads those emails and moves each conversation along a deal board. A lead that went quiet shows up on the board instead of sinking in a thread.
Ours: the board updates itself from Gmail every hour.
The agent reads your payment emails, works out which invoices are still unpaid, and drafts a reminder for each one. The first is friendly. Later ones get firmer. Nothing goes out until you approve it.
Ours: the unpaid list is rebuilt every day at 10:35, from the payment emails alone.
Your customers ask the same things on WhatsApp every week: hours, prices, how to book. An assistant answers from your own material and shows where each answer came from. You choose which questions it’s allowed to take.
Ours: we built one for a client’s member community, and every answer carries its source.
Once the first four are running, you need to know they ran. One email arrives before your day starts. It lists what ran overnight and anything that needs you. If a job failed, it names the job and the reason.
Ours: 7:30 every weekday.
Some work shouldn’t be automated, and we’ll say so on the call.
A job you do twice a month. A checklist is cheaper than software, and you’ll never miss it.
A message where one wrong word loses a customer. A complaint from your best client is one. The agent can draft the reply. You should be the one who sends it.
Decisions about price or people. An agent can pull the facts together for you. The decision stays yours.
Ask two questions about each job on your list. Do you do it every day? Does it go the same way each time?
The job with two yeses that eats the most hours goes first. If nothing on your list gets two yeses, you probably don’t need us yet, and we’d rather tell you that than sell you something.
Pick one job that repeats every day and automate only that. Run it for a few weeks, check the drafts, and add the next job when you trust the first. That’s how ours was built, one job at a time.
If one off-the-shelf tool does the job, use the tool, and we’ll tell you which one. You need someone to build it when the job crosses several accounts, like a payment email that should update the deal board and the unpaid list at the same time.
It depends on the job and how many accounts it touches. The first call is free, and you’ll know what your first job involves before you spend anything.
It is when the customer-facing parts wait for you. Drafts sit until you approve them, and you decide job by job what may act on its own.
It’s what you get when several of these jobs report to one screen and one morning email. You don’t need one to start. Start with a single job. The screen comes later, when there’s enough running to be worth watching.
Write down the jobs you’d never miss. In thirty minutes, free, we’ll tell you which one goes first, or that none of them is worth it yet.
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