u/Gorgottz

For people using AI at work: where do you draw the line?

Do you let AI:

• draft client emails
• send client emails
• suggest meeting times
• create calendar holds
• update CRM/tasks
• chase unpaid invoices
• summarize threads
• prepare reports
• remind you about stale follow-ups

What would you let it do automatically, what would need review, and what would be a hard no? Trying to figure out the right balance atm.

Keep almost pulling the trigger on a virtual assistant / part-time ops person and then bailing. The maths doesn't quite work, £30k+/year for a junior feels like a lot when half the work is "remind me to chase this invoice" or "add this person to the CRM."

But I also keep losing hours to exactly that work, so something has to give.

Anyone been through this loop? What did you actually end up doing, hire, automate, outsource, just give up? And if you hired, did it work out, or did you let them go?

Small agency owner (5 clients). I lose ~6 hours every Monday building client reports from a bunch of different tools. What are people using to speed this up? did you hire someone? what tools makes this easier?