In one sitting, on paper, you stop researching and pick the single workflow worth building first. Not ten. One. The one that buys back the most of your week. Free field guide worksheet.
You do not have an AI problem. You have a where-to-start problem. Every week there is a new tool, a new demo, a new thread telling you that you are already behind. So you read. You bookmark. You open a trial, poke at it for ten minutes, and close the tab. Nothing changed, and now you feel further behind than when you started.
I built my own business on a system of AI agents. I did not get there by adopting everything at once. I picked one workflow, built it until it carried weight, and only then reached for the next. The owners who stay stuck are not the ones with the wrong tool. They are the ones who never chose.
This guide makes you choose. In 60 minutes you list the work that eats your week, score each piece against four honest questions, and walk out with one named workflow worth building first. Not a tool. A workflow.
Get the repeating work out of your head and onto the page. You cannot hand off what you have not named, so the first pass is honest, fast, and on paper. Then you circle the three jobs you most resent doing, because resentment is data.
Most owners build the exciting workflow instead of the one that pays back. You score each candidate one to five on frequency, time drain, rules-clarity, and how cheap a rough draft is to fix. The highest total wins, not your favorite.
When two candidates land close, the worksheet tells you which to keep and why. You leave with one workflow, written as a sentence, so it stops being abstract and starts being something you can build.
The last page is a copy-paste prompt you fill with your own workflow and run on one real example from this week. You find out in five minutes whether it holds, instead of losing a weekend to building something that does not.
The owner who runs the whole thing. If you do your own ops, your own marketing, and your own delivery, and you keep meaning to get AI working but never know where to start, this was written for you. One hour, one pen, one decision you have been avoiding.
The one scoring highest on time spent, repetition, and how clearly you can describe the steps to someone else. Not the one that sounds most exciting. The worksheet makes you rank what you actually do all week, then pick one and stop.
Score each candidate on four questions, break the tie, take the top one. It runs in about an hour on paper. Ten half-built workflows return less than one finished one, which is the whole reason the guide forces a single pick.
Email below · PDF lands in inbox
Drop your email and the worksheet lands in your inbox. You also join the Human at Work newsletter, where I share the next ones. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
Already on the list? Grab the field guide PDF directly. The form is for first-time subscribers; the download link works either way.