See what an assistant would do with your day.

Seven small steps. Each one is a single thing to do, with a picture of what you should see. About five minutes.

1. 1 Copy the message

   Press the gold button under the box.

   The message to give your AI I'm thinking about getting a personal AI assistant set up for my work, and I want to see what it could take off my plate. Please help me write a short summary of my typical work day. STEP 1. Start with what you already know about me from our past chats and anything saved about me. If you know little or nothing about my work, do not guess. Ask me these six questions in one message, numbered, and wait for my answers. If you know my work well but are missing a few parts of the summary below, ask me only about the missing parts, in one short message, and wait. 1. What do you do for work, and is it just you or a team? 2. Walk me through a normal work day, morning to evening. 3. What do you do over and over every week? (For example: quotes, emails, scheduling, invoices, paperwork, reminders.) For each one, about how often, how long it takes, and how it reaches you: email, text, phone, a web form, paper or an app. 4. Which three of those would you most like off your plate? 5. What do you use now? (Which email, which calendar, any apps, and Windows or Mac.) And how much have you used AI before: never, a little, or most days? 6. What should an assistant never do without asking you first? STEP 2. Write the summary in exactly the format below. Keep every label as written, in capital letters, in the same order. Put the whole summary inside one code block so I can copy it in one click. Keep it under 300 words. Use plain words. If you do not know something, write "not sure". Do not make anything up. PRIVACY RULES for the summary: no passwords. No customer, client or coworker names. No phone numbers, email addresses or street addresses. No account, card or ID numbers. No health details and no dollar amounts about my own money. Say "a customer" or "a vendor" instead of a name, even if I gave you one. MY AGENT SUMMARY v1 WORK: (one line: what I do and where, city or region only) TRADE: (my trade or job title, a few words) TEAM: (just me, or how many people) TYPICAL DAY: - morning: (what I do) - midday: (what I do) - evening: (what I do) REPEATED TASKS: - (task) | (how often) | (about how long each time) | (how it reaches me: email, text, phone, web form, paper, app) (list 5 to 8 tasks, one per line, in that same four-part shape) TOP 3 TO HAND OFF: 1. (the task I most want off my plate, and why in a few words) 2. (the second) 3. (the third) TOOLS: (email, calendar, apps, and Windows or Mac) HOW I WRITE: (three words for how I sound when I write to a customer; if I never told you, go by how I write to you here) ALWAYS MINE: (what an assistant must never do without asking me first) AI COMFORT: (a number 1 to 5: 1 = brand new to AI, 5 = I use it every day) BASED ON: (write one: what you already knew about me / my answers just now / both) END OF SUMMARY After the code block, write only this one line: Copy the box above.

   Copy the message

   You should see: the button changes to "Copied".

   That is not what I see: click inside the box, press Ctrl and A together, then Ctrl and C. On a Mac, use Command in place of Ctrl. On a phone, press and hold inside the box, tap Select all, then Copy.

2. 2 Open the AI you already use

   Open it the way you always do, and start a new chat.

   You should see: an empty box to type in, usually at the bottom of the screen. Yours may look a little different from this drawing.

   That is not what I see: look for a button named "New chat" and press it. If you have never used an AI, that is fine: pick your trade instead.

3. 3 Paste the message into that box

   Click inside the empty box, then press Ctrl and V together.

   You should see: the box fills with a long message that begins "I'm thinking about getting a personal AI assistant".

   That is not what I see: on a Mac, press Command and V. On a phone, press and hold inside the box, then tap Paste. If something else appears, go back to step 1 and copy again.

4. 4 Send it

   Press the Enter key.

   You should see: your AI starts writing. It will do one of two things: ask you up to six short questions (like this drawing), or go straight to a gray box that begins MY AGENT SUMMARY.

   That is not what I see: if nothing happens, press the round arrow button at the right end of the message box.

5. 5 If it asked you questions, answer them

   Type your answers the way you would text a friend, then press Enter.

   Short is fine. Spelling does not matter. Leave out customer names, phone numbers and passwords. If your AI went straight to the gray box, skip this step.

   You should see: a gray box that begins MY AGENT SUMMARY and ends END OF SUMMARY.

   That is not what I see: type this and press Enter: Now write the summary in the format I gave you.

6. 6 Copy its answer

   Press the word "Copy" at the top corner of the gray box.

   You should see: the word changes to "Copied" for a moment.

   That is not what I see: if there is no Copy button, drag your mouse from the words MY AGENT SUMMARY down to END OF SUMMARY so they are highlighted, then press Ctrl and C (Command and C on a Mac).

7. 7 Paste it here

   Click inside the box below, press Ctrl and V, then press the gold button.

   Read it over first. It should have no names, phone numbers or passwords in it. If it does, this page blanks them out before it reads the rest.

   Your AI's answer

   Show my day

   You should see: a section appears below, titled "A day with your own assistant".

   That is not what I see: read the line that appears under the button. It says what was wrong with the paste and what to do.

Plain talk about this page

• It is a picture, not a promise. It shows the kind of help an assistant gives with the chores in your summary. It does not measure anything, and we never promise booked jobs or hours saved.
• Your AI can be wrong about you. It wrote the summary from what it remembers or what you just told it. Read it. Fix what is off.
• Nothing leaves your browser. We do not see what you paste, and this page does not save it.
• You stay in charge. A real assistant drafts. You read, approve and send. It never texts or calls your customers and never sets a price.

Want to watch a real one work first? See the showcase.

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