What this looks like in an actual job
Talking about 'automation' in the abstract explains very little. These are walkthroughs of specific situations: who handles what, what runs on its own, and where the system has to stop and ask.
How a solo bookkeeper goes from 8 clients to 20 without hiring
The ceiling isn't your expertise — it's the hours that disappear into categorising receipts. Here's what can come off your plate, and what has to stay under your review.
Read the walkthrough →Local business & contentRunning a barbershop's social media when you're the one behind the chair
The problem isn't that you can't write posts. It's that between cuts there's no time and no headspace. Here's what comes off your plate entirely, and what stays as a weekly approval.
Read the walkthrough →Freelance & designHow a freelance designer handles 5 clients instead of 2
The bottleneck isn't how fast you work. It's the hours lost hunting for the current version and assembling decks. Here's what comes off your plate, and what stays yours.
Read the walkthrough →E-commerce & multilingualSelling in three countries without keeping a translation team
A product goes live in one language and the others follow two weeks later — and those two weeks go to a competitor. Here's how to ship everywhere at once without paying a separate team for it.
Read the walkthrough →Enterprise & productGetting through quarterly review without the 1 a.m. spreadsheet session
No team under you, no headcount coming, and you're held to a department's output. Here's which parts of that load are mechanical enough to hand off — and which have to stay yours, especially in the room.
Read the walkthrough →Tutoring & educationHow a tutor stops losing enquiries that land mid-lesson
An enquiry arrives while you're teaching. Four days later it belongs to someone else. Here's what comes off your plate, and why response speed is worth more here than any amount of promotion.
Read the walkthrough →Coffee shops & local businessAnnouncing a seasonal menu when the owner is the one on bar
A seasonal drink has a three-month life. If nobody hears about it in week one, you didn't sell it. Here's what comes off your plate entirely.
Read the walkthrough →Online courses & coachingTurning fifty recorded workouts into a course when you're a coach, not a producer
Fifty sessions sit in a folder earning nothing. What's stopping you isn't laziness — it's that between 'I have the videos' and 'I have a course' sits work nobody ever taught you.
Read the walkthrough →Agencies & servicesAn agency run on AI agents: where strategy has to go back to a human
Agents carry production well. The problem is elsewhere: strategy starts looking the same across every client, and clients notice before you do.
Read the walkthrough →Dental & clinicsRunning a dental practice's social media when the dentists won't spend time on it
You have cases the practice down the road doesn't. What's missing isn't material — it's someone to build posts out of it without writing clinical nonsense.
Read the walkthrough →What's in each walkthrough
- The whole situation, including the boring parts — without them you can't see where the time actually goes.
- The org: which agents exist and what each one owns.
- Processes that fire on an event rather than waiting for you to remember.
- Tasks broken into steps, so you can see exactly where work stops and waits for you.
- A section on where the decision stays with a human. That's not fine print, it's part of the design.
See also
The roles agents take on
An agent is created for the job in front of it, so this isn't a list of ready-made buttons — it's the roles people most often ask to have covered. Each one says what it does and where it stops.
View →IntegrationsThe tools agents work in
An agent doesn't work in a vacuum — it works in the services where your work already lives. Here is what it actually does there.
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