Five jobs you could hand to AI this week

No pitch here. These are five things most businesses can try this week with tools they probably already have.

1. First drafts of letters, descriptions and quotes

Give AI your rough notes and ask for a first draft of a client letter, a property description or a quote summary. Then edit it. Editing a decent draft is much faster than writing from a blank page.

2. Meeting notes into a clean summary

Paste your own rough notes (not recordings of customers) and ask for a short summary with actions and owners. Two minutes instead of twenty.

3. Templates for your five most common enquiries

Most businesses answer the same handful of questions every week. Ask AI to draft a clear, friendly reply for each, in your tone of voice. Save them and reuse them.

4. A week of social posts in one sitting

Give it your offers, events and a few facts about the business, and ask for a week of posts. Pick the best, tweak them and schedule them. The Sunday-night scramble is gone.

5. A daily "who needs chasing" list

Many email and calendar tools now have built-in AI assistants that can summarise what's waiting on a reply. Ask yours for a morning list of who needs a nudge today.

One golden rule

Never paste customers' personal data into free AI tools. That's where businesses get caught out. Here's why.