Look at the work the person running your company does every week. Some of it involves decisions only that person can make. The rest is recurring preparation, collection and follow-up that supports those decisions.
That preparation is the natural place to start handing off work, to a person or to an AI worker. But not every recurring job makes a good first choice. Before you hand one off, check four things:
- It comes back often. A weekly job repays the effort of handing it off. A job done once a quarter may not.
- You can tell when it is done well. If nobody can describe a good result, nobody can check one.
- The information already exists. The job should draw on records the company keeps, not on what one person remembers.
- A mistake is easy to catch. Start where a person will see an error before it reaches a customer or shapes a decision.
Meeting preparation passes all four. It happens every week. A good result is easy to recognize: an agenda with current goal updates, the weekly numbers and the decisions that need attention.
The information sits in the plan, the numbers and last week’s to-dos. And a mistake is easy to catch, because the person leading the meeting can see a missing update or an unresolved conflict before the discussion begins.
Handing off the preparation does not hand off the accountability. Someone with authority still resolves a priority conflict or decides what an unexpected result calls for.
In Worker, AI workers take on this job: they prep the weekly meeting, chase missing numbers and follow up on every to-do. An AI worker suggests, and a person approves. The COO starts the meeting with the facts ready and the unresolved decisions visible.
Look at the preparation you repeated last week and run each job through the four checks. A job that fails one may only need that part fixed first: for example, a report built from figures one person keeps in their head needs those figures written down before anyone else can prepare it. Pick a job that passes all four, then test it with a short trial before you rely on it.
