PROMPTS
Find Out Which Parts Of Your Job AI Should Already Do ⚡
AI is not going to replace your entire job. But it should absolutely be replacing tasks inside it. This guide gives you the full audit prompt: five minutes.
Source: Salesforce: reps spend under 30% of time selling →
Salesforce's State of Sales research found sales reps spend only 28% of their week actually selling. The other 72% disappears into admin: updating records, chasing data, writing the same emails, prepping for meetings about meetings. And it's not just sales. Almost every job is a thin layer of the work you were hired for, wrapped in a thick layer of busywork.
That's the real automation opportunity. Not "will AI take my job," but "which tasks inside my job should AI take TODAY." The audit below sorts your entire week into three buckets in about five minutes, and hands you a ranked starting list.
The 3 Buckets (And The Real Criteria)
Every task you do lands in exactly one bucket, based on two questions: how much judgment does it need, and what does a mistake cost?
Bucket 1: Fully Automate. It's admin, it's repetitive, and the cost of getting it wrong is low. Think: formatting reports, sorting email, data entry, first drafts of routine messages, scheduling. If a mistake here is annoying but not damaging, the task belongs to AI, end to end.
Bucket 2: AI Assists. It needs a little of your judgment, but AI should do the heavy lifting. AI drafts, you approve. AI researches, you decide. AI prepares the meeting brief, you run the meeting. You stay in the loop, but your part shrinks from an hour to five minutes.
Bucket 3: You Stay In Control. It changes a relationship, or it truly needs your judgment. Negotiations, performance conversations, anything where trust is the product, final calls with real consequences. AI can brief you before these moments, but it doesn't act in them.
The audit prompt applies these criteria for you, task by task, and is deliberately stricter than your gut. Most people put too much in Bucket 3 out of habit, not necessity.
The Full Task Audit Prompt
You don't need a tidy task list to start. The prompt interviews you first, then sorts.
Copy this prompt into Claude when you have five quiet minutes (before your workday starts is perfect). It interviews you about your real week, sorts every task into the three buckets, and hands back a ranked automation plan, so you stop guessing where AI fits and start reclaiming hours this week.
Your First Week With The Results
Automate exactly one thing first. The audit gives you a top 3, but week one is for the #1 only. One real automation that works beats three half-built ones, and the win funds your motivation for the next two.
For Bucket 2 tasks, build the assist as a saved prompt. If "draft my weekly report" is an assist task, write the prompt once (with your format, your tone, your data sources), save it as a Claude skill or a note you paste, and the task drops from an hour to a review pass.
Protect Bucket 3 on your calendar. The entire point of automating buckets 1 and 2 is to spend the recovered hours on judgment work: the relationships, the strategy, the visible wins. If the saved time just becomes more admin, the audit didn't change anything.
Honest note: "fully automate" sometimes needs a connector before it's truly hands-off (your email, calendar, or docs hooked up to Claude). The audit output tells you which setup each task needs, so you'll know whether it's a 5-minute saved prompt or a 30-minute connector setup before you start.
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