// AI assistants
Save time on what is not your trade
Quotes, reminders, emails, invoices to file: a good share of an entrepreneur's week goes into tasks that are not their trade. A well-configured AI assistant prepares them; you review, you sign. Here is how to go about it, with nothing to install to get started.
// delegate
Six chores to hand over to AI
Write
Quotes, reminders, reports
You dictate three sentences, the AI writes the clean version.
Reply
Customer reviews and emails
A polite draft in seconds, which you review and sign.
Sell
Product sheets, posts
A base to touch up rather than a blank page on Sunday evening.
Translate
Menu, catalogue, website
Into English or Spanish, without an agency for every change.
File
Invoices and attachments
Read, renamed, sorted, ready for the accountant.
Prepare
Meetings and files
Summarise a thirty-page document, list the questions to ask.
AI for the tedious tasks, your time for your trade. You review, you sign.
// three levels
From chat to assistant
The same tiling quote, asked for three times: that is what separates a conversation from a real assistant.
- Level 1
The chat
You ask a question, it answers. Tomorrow, you start from scratch and explain everything again.
“Prepare a quote for 12 m² of tiling”: the answer comes fast, but with made-up prices and a layout that is not yours.
- Level 2start here
The assistant
It knows your business: your prices, your tone, your documents, given once and for all. Nothing to install, a few minutes to upload your documents.
The same sentence produces a quote at your prices, in your format, with [TO COMPLETE] wherever information is missing. You review, you send.
- Level 3
Automation
It works while you work: every incoming request is read, filed, prepared. You approve.
The quote request arrives by email, the draft is ready when you open it. This takes a little setting up.
Which tool? The one you will actually open: for these uses, ChatGPT, Mistral's Le Chat, Claude or Gemini are on a par. The free versions are enough to get started.
// safeguards
It writes fast, and it is wrong with confidence
Nothing confidential
No customer, banking or health data in a free version. Turn off the use of your conversations for training.
Every fact gets checked
Prices, dates, laws: what the AI states is checked before it reaches a customer.
Your documents stay with you
The tool is only a passage: the original and the final version live in your own folders.
// on Monday
Where to start
01
Write down three chores
The three tasks of your week that weigh on you most, and that are not your trade.
02
One chore, one tool
One at a time, fifteen minutes a day, with an assistant you have given your documents to.
03
Measure
If nothing changes in two weeks, stop: that task will gain nothing in six months.
// going further
When to get help
The first two levels can be done on your own. Automation takes a little setting up, and as soon as there is customer data, a payment, several users or a tool that must last, what matters does not show on day one: backups, updates, access rights. That is where a provider is useful.
See the offer for small businesses// contact
A free one-hour conversation
You describe your situation and priorities, and you leave knowing where to start — advice, project ownership support or delivery.