Two fun AI wins this week:
Two fun AI wins this week:
1. We get a sizable amount of spam in our support inbox each day, and on regular occasions, we'll have legit emails get falsely flagged. Our team manually reviews to catch them, but do we really need to? I've set up an automation in Claude Cowork to triage our spam folder once a day and move any legit emails back to our inbox.
2. I love the people side of management, but the organizational side has never been a strength. It's a muscle I'm constantly working to develop, and I try to optimize my systems to compensate for this weakness. To help with that, I'm building out a management dashboard for myself.
The tool (Happy Team, as I'm affectionately calling it for now) shows a dashboard of all my team members, tells me when I last met one-on-one with them, reminds me when I last shared thoughts/feedback through our "Reflections" system, and how many conversations they were in with customers recently. You can also open up each team member and access historical data, leave notes, etc.
I started the project less than 24 hours ago, and it's already come a long way. I'm hoping it'll give me more "at a glance" access to the people I'm working with most closely each day. Of course, I could already grab all this information, but I love seeing it in one place.
There is more I want to do with it. Next up is quickly showing their upcoming vacation and how much time they've taken off for the year. Not because I'm worried about people taking too much time off (the opposite, actually). I also want to incorporate a small digest of "recent conversations" each teammate has been a part of, internal communication they've shipped, and other quick info that will help keep me more informed.
I think what I'm most excited about with this project is how much it's teaching me. Github branches, merging to main, push and pull requests, and how to structure a Claude Code project. More than that, it's giving me greater trust in myself. This started as a list of six names on a blank screen, and bit by bit, I'm working to bring my vision to life.