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Ask Flex / Automating repetitive tasks

Ask Flex

How do you automate your job with AI?

"How do I automate my job with AI? I keep hearing people did it and I don't know where they started."You asked Google. Flex answered.
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Flex's short answer

Pick one task you do the same way every time, write the steps down the way you'd explain them to a new hire, and hand that list to a chat AI along with a finished example. Check what comes back, fix what's off, and once it's right, do the next task the same way.

✱ Flex's tips

One task at a time.

1

Start with the dullest one

The task you could do asleep. That's first.

2

Write the steps once

Every click, in order. You only do this once.

3

Show it a finished one

A done report or email. It copies the shape.

4

Check what your company allows

Ask before work files go into any AI.

Try this in your own Claude or ChatGPT

I want to hand off one repeat task from my job. The task: [name it]. Here are the steps I do, in order, the way I'd explain them to a new hire: [list them]. Here's a finished example, with private details removed: [paste or upload]. Do the task from these steps, then tell me which steps you weren't sure about so I can fix the instructions.

Before you paste work stuff into any AI, check what your company allows.

Once a task is written down as steps, it can come off your plate for good. The free Lab shows you how to hand that work to Claude.

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Hand It Off or Keep It

Ten everyday office tasks, one at a time. Tap whether you'd hand it to AI or keep it. See Flex's call and why. A two-minute game.

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A free group where you learn to use Claude for the repeat parts of your job: email, reports, forms. Start with a 15-minute chat that maps what Claude can do in your job.

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✱ What people ask
Can I use AI to do my work for me?

The repeat parts, yes. Writing down the steps and checking the results are the parts that stay with you.

How can I automate my work without knowing code?

You don't need code to start. A chat AI does a task from plain-words steps and a finished example.

Can I automate my job at all?

Parts of it. The repeats. Flex has a page on it.

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From Nikki's blogFlex tells you how. Nikki tells you what it felt like. Read it on Clawd and Me. Read it →

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