Find your first AI tasks
Which tasks to hand to AI first, so you see a win in weeks, not months.
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Stop Hunting for AI Use Cases. Start With Problems.
Sort your tasks into Repeat, Dread, Wish and Firsts, then aim AI at the costliest.
Dharmesh Shah, simple.ai · Oct 2026The Artificial Intelligence Show, Ep. 251 (Q8 "The Owner Bottleneck")
For owners who are the bottleneck: which repetitive tasks to hand to AI first.
Paul Roetzer, Cathy McPhillips, SmarterX / Marketing AI Institute · Nov 2026How I Use AI To Do Things I Don't Do, But Should
A real delegation list showing how to find neglected tasks AI can take over.
Dharmesh Shah, simple.ai · Oct 2026Make AI Work for You (video series)
Short task videos: finances, emails, proposals, social posts, meeting follow-ups.
Grow with Google · 2026Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences
Shows the most common work tasks people give AI: reports, explanations, emails, summaries.
Maxim Massenkoff, Peter McCrory et al., Anthropic · Jun 2026JobsGPT
Breaks a job into tasks and rates which ones AI can help with first.
Paul Roetzer, SmarterX · 2025
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