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Amanda Caswell

I reclaimed 15 hours this week with AI Agents — here is the exact setup I used to automate my workflow

Man working on laptop on desk.

I'm done "chatting" with AI. Honestly, I didn't think we'd get here this soon, but now that AI has the ability to do so much more, I've been leaning on it a lot lately. I'll admit, even I was skeptical about handing over certain tasks to AI like meeting transcriptions and decluttering my inbox. But, I'm pleasantly surprised by how well it handles admin work like a true assistant.

Now that I've moved into agent mode with AI, I can't go back. The difference is simple and oddly satisfying because the agent knows the goal and executes the steps autonomously. By offloading seven specific "boring" tasks to AI agents using tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, I clawed back at least 15 hours of my life. Here are the seven automations that officially killed my admin pile.

1. The inbox gatekeeper

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