I make a lot of decks for work, and putting the first one together can take forever.
Usually I’m starting with notes from a call, a rough brief, or something someone sent me. Then I have to figure out what’s worth putting on a slide and build it all myself.
I’ve tried a few AI slide tools, but I still end up changing a lot of things.
Has anyone found one that does a decent job with this?
We keep making the same types of client and vendor agreements. Right now we copy an old document, change a few details, and send it around for review.
I’m looking for something that can use our previous agreements as reference and create a new first draft from the new deal details. Anyone doing this with AI?
This is the part I’m stuck on the most tbh.
It’s easy to make an automation that works once when you test it. It’s harder to trust it enough that you stop checking whether it broke, skipped something, duplicated something, or sent the wrong thing to the wrong place.
I’ve had a few simple workflows that technically worked, but I still felt like I had to babysit them.
What setup do you have that you actually trust now?
What made it reliable enough that you stopped checking on it every day?
Feels like the automation space has exploded over the last year. Every week there’s a new AI workflow builder, agent platform, or automate your business with AI tool launching.
Right now the names I keep seeing are N8N, Make, Zapier, Relevance AI, LangChain, Flowise, Relay, Lindy, and a bunch of newer agent-based platforms.
For people actually using these tools in real projects:
Curious what everyone’s current stack looks like and what’s been the most reliable for building useful automations.
Trying to clean up the boring finance admin side of things. Not really looking for another budgeting app, more trying to stop everything being spread across spreadsheets, accountant emails, broker statements, tax folders, and calendar reminders.
Right now I’m looking at a few tools like Sharesight for portfolio/tax tracking, Xero or Hubdoc for accounting docs, Dext for receipts/invoices, Frollo or PocketSmith for the personal finance view, and SMSF Buddy for SMSF-specific tracking.
For context, I’m in Australia and the SMSF trustee side is the part that seems to take the most effort. Contributions, records, CGT notes, compliance dates, documents, all the little things that are easy to lose track of.
There are tons of apps out there claiming to boost productivity, but I’m curious what has genuinely worked for you in real life.
Which tools have actually improved your workflow and why?
Could be anything like automation tools like n8n, conversational platforms like Botpress, open-source AI tools, or even simple setups you’ve stuck with long-term.
Would love to hear what’s actually worth it vs what just looks good on paper.
Anyone else have days where you blink and it’s somehow 3pm and you’ve done nothing except rotate between apps?
Lately I’ve noticed if I waste the first few hours scrolling or just doing absolutely nothing, my brain instantly decides the whole day is ruined. Then I somehow make it worse by continuing to do nothing.
The only thing that kinda works for me is doing one stupidly easy task, like taking out trash, replying to one message, clearing my desk, or putting shoes on for no reason.
Curious what everyone else does. What’s your lowest-effort trick for saving the day before it fully turns into a side quest?