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AI That Works Like It’s On Your Payroll
Scott Bishop
May 07, 2025
Your Smartest Hire Yet—24/7 Efficiency Without the Overhead.
No, it won’t take your lunch — but it will take your to-do list. This week, we’re breaking down how Custom GPTs are becoming the secret weapon for small teams who want to scale without hiring.
What’s Inside This Week?
The prompt that helps you “hire” your first GPT
A free tool to find your biggest time leaks
A real-world workflow that replaced email drudgery
A shot of tough love from your future AI business coach
News from Apple, Nvidia, and Zuck that’s changing the game
Quick Win: Write a Job Post For Your Next GPT
If you were hiring a GPT like an employee, what would you want it to do?
Writing a job post helps you get laser-clear on what to delegate — and shows you exactly how AI can step in like a pro.
Prompt:
“Write a job post for a Custom GPT that will work inside my business. Include the job title, what department it supports (marketing, ops, or sales), 3–5 main tasks it should handle, and one funny perk of working with it. Keep it light and clever.”
Try this prompt, and you’ll walk away knowing exactly what kind of GPT your business needs — with a few laughs along the way.
The Smarter Stack: The 10x Automation Advisor (Built Just For You)
We built this so you don’t have to waste another hour on boring, repetitive work.
👉[Try the 10X Automation Advisor — Free] is a free Custom GPT that tells you:
Where your business is leaking time
How much it’s costing you
And exactly what kind of GPT to build to fix it
You don’t need any tech skills. Just answer a few questions, and it’ll map out the smartest places to automate — with a real ROI plan you can act on. Zero fluff. Zero upsell.
This is the GPT we wish we had when we started.
Want more say in what we build next? Just vote — sales, marketing, or operations. Your call.
Real World Use Case: AI Agents That Automate Your Email (and Save You Hours)
A logistics consultant used to spend hours manually reading emails, pulling order info, and keying it into supply chain systems. Sound familiar?
So he built a GPT-powered workflow using n8n that reads inbound supplier emails, extracts the relevant details (PO number, delivery date, SKUs, quantities), and dumps everything neatly into a spreadsheet — ready for upload.
What used to be a time-sucking admin task is now a fully automated AI agent working behind the scenes.
Here’s the kicker:
That single workflow became the seed of a six-figure automation consulting business — and now powers clients across industries.
The takeaway? Don’t just automate what’s obvious. Automate what’s annoying.
How That Could Work for You
Got emails you copy-paste from all day? Invoices, order forms, client notes?
You could build a simple GPT-powered workflow — just like this consultant — to scan those emails, pull out the important info, and drop it into a spreadsheet or database automatically.
No more digging. No more typing. Just clean data, right where you need it.
You don’t need to be technical. You just need to be fed up enough to try it.
Just For Fun: Ask Your GPT for A Pep Talk
Sometimes you don’t need another to-do list — you need a kick in the pants.
👉 Try this prompt and let ChatGPT channel its inner business coach:
Prompt:
“Give me a short, no-fluff pep talk like you’re my business coach. Keep it direct, motivating, and maybe a little intense — I need a kick, not a hug.”
It might be the only time your AI yells at you (nicely). And yes, it will call you out.
AI In The News: Big Tech, Big Shifts, and One Big Reality Check
This week in AI: tech giants made moves, and the rest of us got a glimpse of where this is all heading.
1. Apple may ditch Google Search — for AI.
A new report says Apple is testing its own AI-powered search engine inside Safari. If true, it could shake up Google’s dominance and change how customers find your business online. (CNBC)
2. Nvidia’s CEO says it bluntly:
“Every job will be affected by AI. Some will be lost.” But he also stressed the upside: businesses that embrace AI can move faster and smarter than ever before. (Yahoo Finance)
3. Mark Zuckerberg is all-in on AI assistants.
He says AI agents will become the way we interact with tech — and Meta’s working to make that mainstream. Think digital coworkers, not just smarter chatbots. (WSJ)
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Before You Go!
You didn’t join this newsletter to sit back and watch other people win. You joined to level up your AI game.
So don’t overthink it — try something. Anything.
Run a prompt, test a tool, build that first baby GPT. You’re one click away from working smarter.