It's a million degrees and I'm teaching robots to do my admin

Hey, Reader!

It is a million degrees outside. The kind of heat where the laptop fan sounds making loud noises, the dog has melted into a puddle on the wooden floor, and thinking in full sentences feels way too ambitious right now. 🔥

So I've been doing something that feels almost rebellious in a week like this: building little robots to do the boring bits of my business for me.

Not in a grand, tech-savvy way. In a quiet, practical way. I've been teaching Claude to handle the repetitive jobs I do every single week, the ones that eat the hours without ever feeding the soul, so I can hand them over and get my time back.

And the point of getting that time back isn't to cram in more work. It's this: Room to sit in the shade with an iced coffee. To run a tiny experiment. To invite you into one. ✨

Because the whole reason I build systems in my own biz is so there's more space for the things that don't run on a system at all, like this creative experiment.

So this week: three things I've learned about teaching AI to actually sound like you and do real work, and then an invitation to come and make a little joy with me. ✨

3 ai tips to know

1. Start with one boring job. Just one.

Don't try to "automate your business." Pick a single task you do over and over: the same five emails, the post you rewrite from scratch every time, the weekly newsletter. Then describe out loud, in proper detail, exactly how you do it, and let the AI write that up into a recipe it can follow. One job done well beats a grand plan that you never start.

→ Try this: Next time you do a repetitive task, talk it through like you're training a new assistant. Voice-note it on a walk if that's easier, and save what you said.

2. Every correction is a missing instruction.

This is the bit that changed everything for me. When the AI gets it wrong and you hear yourself saying "no, not like that" again, that isn't the AI failing you. It's an instruction you haven't written down yet. Keep a little note of every "not like that" and feed those corrections back in. Do it for a month and the thing genuinely starts to sound like you, instead of staying stuck on generic.

→ Try this: Keep one running note titled "not like that." Every time you correct the AI, add a line. That note is how it learns you.

3. You're ready to hand it over when you love the whole batch.

You'll know a system is ready not when it's clever, but when it hands you a piece of content and you actually like all of it. Until then, you are the human in the loop deciding what "good" looks like. In a world filling up with fast, soulless AI sludge, your unique experience is the entire point. Keep it.

→ Try this: Don't automate anything until it passes the "would I send this as-is?" test. The moment that happens, let it run, and spend the time you save on something that matters.

2 things i'm loving

✦ The Joy Experiment. Come and play!

This is the invitation I've been wanting to send for ages. A tiny, low-stakes experiment in noticing more joy: the glimmers, the small good things, the moments we usually rush straight past. Nothing to download, nothing to perform. Just a gentle practice I'm running, and I would love you in it.

→ Join the Joy Experiment​

✦ Doing absolutely nothing at the hottest hour

My second pick this week isn't a tool, it's a permission slip. When the heat peaks, I've stopped fighting it. Curtains drawn, feet up, fan on, a cold drink, fifteen minutes of doing nothing at all. The world keeps turning, the work still gets done, and I come back to my desk actually able to think.
​This is rest as a strategy, not a reward.

1 affirmation

I pulled this from my own affirmation deck this morning, and it felt like exactly the one to share.

You're allowed to build the business around the life, not the life around the business. The systems, the little robots, the early starts... they're all in service of that. Less hustle. More space.

That's your 3-2-1 for this week. What's one small glimmer that's found you this week? Hit reply and tell me.

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With love & creativity,
xo, Louise 🫶

P.S. The real reason I'm building all these little robots? 🤖 Something's coming. I've been quietly turning my ROOT work (the way I help founders find the thread through everything they know) into something you'll actually be able to step inside, and then bloom from. Stay tuned... 🪷

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