10 AI automations that run your week, with the prompts to paste
Ten scheduled tasks ready to paste into Claude or ChatGPT: inbox triage, pre-meeting dossier, call recap, Friday cleanup, Monday brief, expense report, content bank, repurposing, brand deal scanner, Sunday performance digest. With the cadences, the connectors and the real limits of each platform.
September 17, 2026 Β· 9 min read
An AI automation is not an agent deciding in your place. It is a saved prompt plus a time of day. You write it once, the platform runs it every week, and you get finished work instead of a blank page. The ten below run on a clock, not on your attention.
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The two engines
Cadences on Claude: hourly, daily, weekly, weekdays only, or manual. Tasks run remotely, so they fire with your laptop shut. Anything touching a local file runs locally, and only while the machine is awake.
On ChatGPT, a task runs at most once an hour, and the number of active tasks depends on the plan.
What to set up first
The ten automations
Inbox triage
You open your laptop to an inbox already sorted, with the easy replies already written.
The prompt to paste:
Find every email received since 5pm yesterday.
Sort them into three buckets:
HIGH, needs a reply from me today
MEDIUM, needs a reply this week
LOW, for information, newsletters, receipts, no reply needed
For anything in HIGH or MEDIUM with an obvious, low risk answer, write
the reply out in full in your output. Short, direct, no empty opening
line.
Do not write anything involving money, legal terms, a new commitment
or a refusal. List those under NEEDS YOU.
Finish with the count per bucket and the three subjects actually
worth my attention today.
The pre-meeting dossier
An hour before each call, you get one page on the person across the table.
Check my calendar for events starting in the next 90 minutes with at
least one attendee outside my organisation. If there are none, stop.
For each one, give me a page:
who the person is and what they do,
what changed for them or their company in the last three months,
what we have said to each other by email so far,
three questions to ask,
and what a good outcome for this call looks like.
Stay factual. When you cannot find something, write that you do not know.
Call recap into your task list
The task reads the transcripts dropped in during the day and pulls out the commitments.
Check the Drive folder Meetings/Transcripts for files added in the last
24 hours. If there are none, stop.
For each transcript, output:
the decisions made,
what I promised to do, with a date when one was said,
what the other party promised,
the questions left open.
Write every commitment as a task: a verb, an object, a deadline. No
narrative summary.
The Friday cleanup
The only one on the list that has to run locally: a remote task cannot see your disk.
Tidy my Downloads and Desktop folders.
Sort the files by type and by project into my existing folders. Do not
create a new folder structure without telling me.
List separately what is obviously useless: installers already used,
duplicates, screenshots older than thirty days. Delete nothing, give me
the list.
Finish with the number of files moved and the space I could recover.
The Monday brief
One page, Monday morning, on the week ahead.
Build my brief for the week.
Take my calendar for the next seven days and tell me where my hours go,
which three meetings matter, and where I have blocks long enough to do
real work.
Add whatever has been sitting unanswered in my inbox for more than
three days.
Finish with a single question: what has to move this week for the month
to hold.
The expense report
Last month gathered into a report ready to hand over.
Collect every business expense from last month.
Search my inbox for receipts, invoices and payment confirmations, and
the Drive folder Finance/Receipts.
Output a table: date, supplier, amount, currency, category, and the link
to the receipt.
Flag the expenses with no receipt and the likely duplicates. Finish with
the total per category.
Build log into your content bank
Two minutes in the evening, an idea bank filling itself.
Ask me one question and stop: what did you work on today.
When I answer, turn my answer into three entries for my content bank:
one concrete thing I actually hit today,
one lesson worth something to someone other than me,
one hook opening a video on that subject.
Append them to Content/bank.md with the date. Never rewrite what is
already in there.
Weekly repurposing
One long piece in, a week of content out.
Read the newest transcript in Content/LongForm and my voice sample in
Content/voice.md.
Output:
five hooks for short videos, each pulled from a precise moment of the
transcript, with the timestamp,
two carousel scripts, structure and content of every slide,
one long post for LinkedIn.
Write in my voice, not yours. Reuse my own phrasing when it is good. No
generic opening sentence.
The brand deal scanner
Worth building the moment brands start writing to you and you repeat the same judgement calls.
Read my rules in Business/brand-playbook.md first. They hold my rate
floor, my usage terms, my exclusivity limits and my red lines.
Then go through my inbox for brand messages received since the last run.
For each one: what they are asking, what they are offering, what is
missing to decide, and whether the offer clears my rules. Say which of
my criteria blocks it when it blocks.
Sort into three buckets: take, negotiate, decline.
The Sunday content digest
The only appointment on this list changing what you publish next week.
Read every export in Content/Analytics, including the previous four
weeks, not just this one.
Tell me:
the three best performing pieces and what they have in common,
the three worst and what they have in common,
what changed compared with the four weeks before,
and one thing to do more of next week.
Always compare with the median for the period, never with my best piece
ever. If the gap is not significant, say so instead of inventing an
explanation.
The six rules keeping it from breaking
Where to start
Open last week's calendar and find the moment you did a task you had already done the week before, identically. That is the one to automate first, not the most impressive on the list.
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