For the 14-Day Automation Audit (Days 1-3). Find the recurring tasks worth automating first, in the order you build them. 30 minutes. What this is A way to find the three things at your job worth automating first. Not the coolest three. The three that will actually ship inside a company, where every change has to get past a person who can say no. Most people who fail at this pick the impressive project. It needs six approvals, touches customer data, and dies in week three. The people who become the AI person at their company pick the boring weekly report first, ship it in five days, and get asked "how did you do that" by Friday. Then they get to do the impressive one. Step 1: Dump every recurring task (10 min) Open last week's calendar, inbox, and task list. Write down every task you did that you have done before and will do again. Include the two-minute ones. Aim for at least 10 rows (20 to 40 is better). Format, one line each: [task] / [how often: daily, weekly, monthly] / [minutes each time] Examples from real PM, ops, marketing, analyst, and account roles: - Pull numbers from three systems into the Monday status email, weekly, 45 - Write the recap after every client call, daily, 20 - Turn a messy request into a ticket the dev team accepts, daily, 15 - Update the project tracker after standup, daily, 10 - Draft the release note when something ships, weekly, 30 - First-pass review of a vendor intake form, monthly, 120 - Rename and file the attachments from the intake inbox, daily, 10 - Build the same slide for the same leadership meeting, weekly, 40 Step 2: Score each task on five things (10 min) Score 1 to 5. Higher is better for automation. Frequency - 1: Monthly or less - 3: Weekly - 5: Daily or more Time - 1: Under 10 min - 3: 10 to 30 min - 5: Over 30 min Pain - 1: Fine, actually - 3: Annoying - 5: I dread it Inputs already exist as data - 1: Lives in people's heads or phone calls - 3: Some of it is in a file or system - 5: All of it is in a file, export, inbox, or system