Free booklet · 40 pages

Buying back time.

Practical ways to use AI and make more time for what you love.

It’s the help I wish I’d had a few years ago. Plain-English examples you can try with the tools you already use, what to check before you trust the answer, and how to tell whether it’s actually given you any time back.

No coding needed. It works with ChatGPT, Claude and similar tools, and every example is made up, so you can try them safely.

Small, useful changes
you can actually try.

Each example explains what it’s for, how to try it and what to check. No hype, and no pretending AI is magic. Sometimes the booklet will tell you a saved template does the job better.

Get past the blank page

Turn rough thoughts into an opening you can edit, instead of staring at a blinking cursor all morning.

Replies that don’t make things up

Draft answers to everyday enquiries, then spot the confident-sounding bits that are completely imaginary.

Find a usable gap in your diary

Plan around travel, preparation and breaks, so the hour you find is one you can actually use.

Remember work, ideas and conversations

Keep notes you can find again, plus somewhere for the “not now, but later” ideas.

Connect it and try it

See how your to-do list, diary and notes could work together, starting with tools you might already have.

Check it’s actually helped

A simple way to time a small trial. Time back isn’t always money saved... it might just mean finishing earlier.

A few pages
from the booklet.

Open a page for a closer look. The rest arrives in your inbox.

**Find the bit that helps you.**Thirteen short sections. Dip into the one you need.

**More room for the work you want to do.**Give it a job, check its work, use the time.

**Which bit of your week would you like back?**Start with a job you recognise.

**A confident answer can still be wrong.**Lovely manners. Completely imaginary appointment.

**A little more you. A lot less rewriting.**Getting AI to sound like you, not a brochure.

**There’s an hour. Here’s where it fits.**A worked diary plan with the travel left in.

**A memory you can actually look through.**Notes and ideas you can find again.

**Has it actually bought you time?**Count the fiddly corrections too.

Plus 32 more pages. Sent straight to your inbox, free.

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Ten little nudges
along the way.

Dotted through the booklet are short tips from me. Here are four of them.

Pick the job that steals your evening, then decide what you’d like that time for. A proper conversation counts. So does shutting the laptop.
Still stuck? Ask AI to ask you three questions first, then draft from your answers.
Keep two non-sensitive writing samples that sound like you. Ask AI to follow their tone, then read it aloud. Would you say that over a cuppa?
Time a few ordinary jobs, including the fiddly corrections. Your quickest result is a nice surprise, not a sensible monthly estimate.

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Why I put this together
Find a job worth changing
Choosing AI and using it carefully
Get past the blank page
Everyday replies, notes and FAQs
Keep the personal touch
Make it sound like you
Find a usable gap in your diary
Remember work, ideas and conversations
Connect it, try it, see whether it helps
Want a hand working it out?
Optional pages for your own ideas
Sources and further reading

I know what it’s like to be drowning in admin.

I’ve worked days that stretched to ten or eleven hours, and I’ve started a business from scratch, trying to work out what I needed and who could help.

Over the past few years, AI has helped me buy back time. I still want the conversations with people to stay mine, and yes, I still check its homework. This booklet is how I’d want to help you use it too.

More about me

A few things you might be wondering.

Is it really free?

Yes. Pop your email in and I’ll send it over. I’ll also send the odd AI tip and update, unless you tick the box to say no, and you can unsubscribe any time... though I’ll do my best to make you want to stay.

Do I need to be techy?

No coding needed for the examples. You tell the tool what you’d like in ordinary words. Connecting your inbox or letting AI send replies needs a bit more thought, and the booklet explains why.

Which AI tools does it cover?

The writing examples work with chat tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, with pointers for Microsoft 365 Copilot too. It also covers when a saved template or an ordinary automation would do the job without AI at all.

What about my customers’ information?

The examples use made-up details, so you can try them safely. There’s a page on what to check before you paste anything real into an AI tool.

What format is it?

A 40-page PDF you can read on screen or print, including a few optional pages for your own ideas.

A bit more time. For you.

Start with one job you’d like back. The booklet will help you work out whether AI is the right tool for it.

Rather just talk it through? Get in touch