Automating routine work

Connect apps and add AI steps to workflows you repeat every week.

What it is

Automation tools watch for a trigger (a new email, a form response, a file) and run a series of steps, some of which can now be AI: summarize, classify, extract, draft.

Why it matters

If you do something every week, you can probably automate most of it, and learn how AI systems fit together while you're at it.

Key ideas

• Start with a workflow you already do by hand.
• Add a human check before anything is sent.
• Log every run so you can see failures.

Try it: Automate one chore

1. Pick a weekly task.
2. Map its steps on paper.
3. Build it in Zapier or n8n with one AI step and a manual approval.