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Start with one thing
you repeated today
From an owner who runs an online shop solo.
"The start is less grand than you think.
Just delegate to AI one task you repeated today."
We split that one time into five steps.
Combines practitioner notes, automation guides, and the personal axis of a 90-day playbook
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01
Find the repetition
In today's work, find what you did twice or more.
The thing where you thought "here we go again."
The clearer the input and the more the pattern repeats, the better.
It's the first criterion automation guides commonly point to.
Source Automation-fit criteria — clear input, regular pattern (work automation guides)
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02
Write down the steps
Pretend you're handing the task to a new hire, and write it in three or four lines.
This memo becomes the instruction itself.
As you write, how you'd been doing this task becomes clear for the first time.
That alone makes it worthwhile.
Source The "AI is a new hire" view — the practice of giving context and standards first
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03
Try it with real data
Not practice samples — put in the actual material you got yesterday.
You need about three to see the variance.
Find where what worked on samples breaks on the real thing.
That's as far as this step goes.
Source 90-day rollout playbook — the personal version of the build-with-real-data principle
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04
Review the result and fix it
Don't send the draft out as-is.
Check numbers, names, dates against the source.
If the tone is off, show an example and have it fix it.
Same as new-hire feedback — two or three rounds and it improves noticeably.
This "a person sees it last" structure is what split results by double.
Source Stanford Enterprise AI Playbook — review only exceptions 71% vs per-item approval 30%
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05
Save what worked
Paste the instruction that worked into a notes app.
When the same task comes tomorrow, use it again.
A week and it's second nature.
Then, on to the second repetitive task — one each week.
An organization's 90-day playbook is, in the end, these five steps done together by many.
Source One per week · turning instructions into assets — 90-day playbook and Stanford (77% of the gap is operations)
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Do it once
and you get the feel
Actually delegating three reviews beats reading ten articles.
One thing you repeated today.
How about starting there?
Sources: solo-founder and practitioner notes (perspective) · work automation guides · 90-day rollout playbook · Stanford Playbook (figures)
AXHub card No.5 — the instructions in the example boxes are sample text to copy. The figures follow the source cited at the bottom of each card.