Cutting Repetitive Office Work with AI

Cutting Down Repeat Email Replies With AI Drafts: What to Hand Over and What to Write Yourself

For emails that keep coming back, like declines, rescheduling and information requests, let AI draft the reply, but a person must first decide the promises: deadlines, exceptions and what is possible. We gave three made-up photo studio emails to AI six times in two ways. Every calculation was right, but four of the six drafts contained a promise or judgment the owner never made. We share three reply templates and three checks before sending.

2026-11-14About 10 min read

Cleaning Up a Spreadsheet With AI: Check Row Count, Total and 5 Sample Rows Before You Trust It

When AI tidies a spreadsheet, rows can vanish or numbers can change and the table still looks clean. This post covers what to check before you paste a table in, a prompt that asks for one fix at a time, the three checks (row count, total, 5 sample rows), how to find changed cells, and a record of two cleanups of a made-up order sheet compared against the original.

2026-11-13About 7 min read

3 Steps to Help Catch Missing Details When Turning Meeting Notes Into Minutes With AI: Paste Raw, Set the Columns, Then Cross-Check

When you give meeting notes to an AI, the sentences read smoothly, but decisions, to-dos, owners, and deadlines often go missing or get invented. This post covers three steps: paste the notes as they are, set the columns and get a table, and decide where you will check for gaps. It also has a prompt you can copy and the results of running a fictional meeting twice.

2026-11-13About 7 min read

How We Pick Repetitive Tasks to Hand to AI (A 5-Question Checklist)

Pick tasks for AI not because they look like something it would do well, but because a mistake would be easy to spot. Answer five questions, add up the score, and each task lands in one of three groups: hand it over now, hand it over with checks, or don't hand it over. We scored 10 fictional office tasks and include the results.

2026-11-13About 7 min read

Cutting Down Repeat Email Replies With AI Drafts: What to Hand Over and What to Write Yourself

Cleaning Up a Spreadsheet With AI: Check Row Count, Total and 5 Sample Rows Before You Trust It

3 Steps to Help Catch Missing Details When Turning Meeting Notes Into Minutes With AI: Paste Raw, Set the Columns, Then Cross-Check

How We Pick Repetitive Tasks to Hand to AI (A 5-Question Checklist)

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