Like what?
Accreditation applications. Hundreds of pages, fifty things to check. Thirty minutes.
The job. Assessors read hundreds of pages to find proof of fifty things.
Who says yes. Their assessors. The AI shows them where each proof is. They decide whether it's proof.
How long. About 30 minutes an application, for the AI.
What I'd change. The AI can only hold so much of an application at once, and we spend real effort feeding it the right pages. Bigger memory, please.
Board risk reports. One click. Charities, councils, NDIS providers.
The job. A risk manager has a register from a year ago and a board paper due. Which risks apply here?
Who says yes. The manager. They type what's happening, the machine suggests risks, they add or reject each one.
How long. One click and the board paper is written.
What I'd change. You click it. You can't talk to it yet. That's next.
My inbox. Not summaries. Who owes what, tracked and updated.
The job. Hundreds of email threads and one question every morning: what do I owe people, and what do they owe me?
Who says yes. Me. The bot keeps the list of who owes what. I decide what gets done today, and I still read and write my own emails.
How long. Dozens of emails a day. It runs every 30 minutes, so the list is current before I've opened the inbox.
What I'd change. The dated Outlook/Gmail UIs are horrible. Maybe I'll take this on next weekend?
AI I've wired in lately
Custom firmware on the robot vacuum. I spoke, the AI built it.
A garage door button on my phone, wired to a tiny chip in the garage. Same again.
Herald: every day, what's new from the world and what's on fire from the week's messages.
A phone line for Perdura that lands in Slack.
A company's files out of SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive and into one place, with a bot doing the sorting.
36 features in a day: a big update to Everbind, built and tested in a loop with the AI.
A security audit of StartRisk, by OpenAI's Daybreak model, checked by me.
A bot for personal training, food, and one for the day's admin.
A bot to sell stuff on Marketplace. Not smooth. Would not recommend yet.
Salesforce interface prototypes and custom tools.
Claude as infrastructure workflow: provision new machines, plumb them in, add network security, etc.
A skill that draws full system diagrams and pulls out the important logic.
Reproduced the research for a sentence and word scorer that helps you write more clearly.
This website.