2 actual ways I used AI in my workflow this week.
2 actual ways I used AI in my workflow this week. One saved me 30–60 min on something I dreaded. One saved me 10+ hours and helped me do my job better.
Working out loud because I find actual examples way more useful than general "you should be using AI" advice. I'm not an expert, just figuring it out like everyone else.
I've been sorting experiments into 2 buckets:
1. Efficiency: what saves me time or kills manual work
2. Effectiveness: what helps me do better, more strategic work
One from each this week.
1. Automated weekly meeting recap (Efficiency)
→ Tools: Claude Cowork with connectors to Granola, Chrome extension for Google Docs, and Slack
→ Logic: Automate weekly comms with the team following team call with recap and work plan action steps (with due dates + owners)
→ Setup: Reviews the full meeting transcript (not just the AI summary), cross-references our running meeting notes and separate running work plan in Google Docs, scans certain Slack channels and DMs from the previous week, identifies the recap + action items with due dates per stakeholder, then drafts a formatted Slack message to our team channel. This could automatically post, but it's not 100% perfected yet and I still edit certain things, so it lands as a draft.
→ Scheduling: Every Monday, 5 minutes after our weekly call
→ Time saved: 30–60 min/week — 2–4 hours/month on a task I would have 100% passed to an intern if I had one
2. Interactive messaging wireframe (Effectiveness)
→ Tools: Claude Chat
→ Logic: MVP mock up messaging and hierarchy for a homepage rewrite to communicate visually with the team and avoid confusion
→ Setup: Chat with Claude to mock this up: creates an interactive HTML file you can see in the chat, download, and open in your browser (can also send to the team to do the same). Supplied it with the current website, other files about the company/messaging, what I wanted to change, etc.
→ Time reduced: Goodness, probably 10+ hours. Not mocking it up in Figma/Canva, the team is able to review faster, etc. The copy alone saved me multiple hours. I still edit and direct it very closely, but it gets to a solid MVP point to communicate direction and wordsmith from. I was able to rewrite the whole homepage and have a first draft to review with the team in an afternoon.
→ Notes: This one is SO cool. I was also able to create toggle options to show different messaging approaches in the same file. The file is editable too, so as you're discussing as a team you can edit the copy directly. Presenting work visually like this is something I feel strongly about.
I've been blown away with Claude lately. Fully on the hype train and the ChatGPT transfer crowd! What I really like is how much it doesn't just fully agree with me (have this in my settings too), and how fast it moves.
Anything I could be doing better on these two? Any cool ways you've been using AI I should try next? Learning out loud with everyone here!