Find your first AI workflow

Choose something recurring enough that improvement would matter.

Avoid sensitive data, high-stakes decisions, and work that cannot be reviewed.

Prefer tasks where you already know what good output looks like.

Write the workflow in five to seven steps.

Mark where time, rework, waiting, copying, searching, or formatting shows up.

Name the one step where AI might help first.

Use AI on the narrowest useful piece of the task.

Compare the result against your usual standard.

Decide what must stay human-owned before repeating it.