(and a simple playbook to start today)
If you’re a solo entrepreneur or a small team, you don’t need another theory piece. You need repeatable, practical workflows that shorten your to-do list and help you ship more. That’s exactly what this article gives you: concrete ways to plug ChatGPT into daily operations, plus a simple starting playbook.
Why this matters now
AI isn’t magic. It’s a leverage tool. If you’re spending hours writing emails, formatting reports, or pulling insights from messy data, you’re paying an invisible tax. The fix is standard operating procedures that hand off 60–80% of the mental grind to ChatGPT, so you focus on judgment calls, relationships, and creative direction.
The point isn’t to do everything with AI. It’s to avoid doing the same thing twice.
10 high-impact use cases you can deploy this week
These are fast to implement, easy to measure, and safe to test on low-risk tasks first.
- Customer support triage
Paste a week of support emails and ask ChatGPT to sort by topic, sentiment, and urgency. Use the output to create canned responses and a simple routing doc. Next step: have it draft first-pass replies to your…