Workflow Automation Line
Find the tasks worth automating, connect AI to the apps you already use, and measure the hours you get back.
Intermediate10–12 hours7 stationsFree
Who it's for: Operators, marketers, analysts and small-business owners who repeat the same digital tasks every week.
What you'll be able to do
- Audit a week of work and rank tasks by automation value
- Build a no-code automation that calls an AI step
- Design human review points so automation stays safe
- Measure time saved and report it
The route
Station 1: The task audit
A one-week log template and a scoring rule (frequency × minutes × error cost) to find your best candidates.
Station 2: AI inside tools you already use
Email, documents, spreadsheets and meeting notes: switch on what is already paid for before buying anything new.
Station 3: No-code automation basics
Triggers, actions and data mapping — the three ideas behind every automation platform.
Station 4: Adding an AI step
Classify, summarise, extract or draft inside an automation, with prompts written for machines rather than people.
Station 5: Human in the loop
Where to insert approvals, how to sample outputs, and when an automation should stop itself.
Station 6: Spreadsheets with AI
Formula help, cleaning messy data and turning a table into a written summary.
Station 7: Measuring the win
Before-and-after timing, error rates and a one-page impact report your manager will read.
Read along
- Automate repetitive work with AI: a step-by-step method · 10 min
- Using AI with spreadsheets: formulas, cleaning and summaries · 8 min
- An AI meeting-notes workflow that people actually read · 6 min
- How to measure the productivity gains from AI · 8 min
Watch along
How I use LLMs
Andrej Karpathy · Prompt Craft
Practical, everyday use of AI assistants from one of the field's best teachers.
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathy · Foundations
A long, general-audience walkthrough of the full training stack behind chat assistants.
How to complete this line
Work through one station per sitting. For each: read the linked guide, watch the video where one is listed, then apply the idea to one real task from your own work and note the result. When you have done all stations, try the matching brief in this month's prompt challenge.