5 Jobs to Hand ChatGPT or Claude This Week

Most people use ChatGPT or Claude like a search box. Type a question, get an answer, close the tab. That's the smallest thing these tools do. Here are five jobs I'd hand to whichever one you use, starting this week. None of them need an app, a formula or any setup.

5. The follow-up

After a meeting, open the app on your phone and just talk. Who was there, what they want, what you promised, the date somebody mentioned on the way out. Don't clean it up. Then ask for two things: the recap email and your to-do list. Read it, fix what's off, send it.

The follow-up goes out before you leave the parking lot, while the other person still remembers the meeting.

4. Ask your spreadsheet a question

Export last year's sales and drop the file in. Then ask in plain English: which customers stopped buying? Which month was slowest? What sold more in the second half than the first?

You don't need a formula or a pivot table. You get the answer, and you can ask a follow-up question.

3. The checklist

Pick a task you explain over and over. Explain it out loud, the way you would to a new hire on their first day. Then ask for a step-by-step checklist.

Next time somebody asks how it's done, you send the checklist instead of doing it for them again. Do one a week and you have a training manual by spring.

2. Rehearse the hard conversation

Tell the AI to play your toughest customer and to push back on your price. Then make your case and let it argue. Ask it to get tougher. Ask what you should have said.

By the time the real call happens, you've already heard every objection out loud.

1. Let it interview you

This one makes the other four work. Before a big ask, like a proposal, a business plan or a new policy, don't try to write the perfect prompt. Type this:

Ask me one question at a time until you understand what I need.

Then just answer, like you're talking to a friend. It pulls out the details you would have left out, and what you get back fits your business instead of everybody's.

Pick one

You don't need all five. Pick one and do it this week. Use whichever tool you already have. I use Claude most days, but these all work in ChatGPT too.

Which of the five would save you the most time?

Prompts from the video

Follow-up: "Here are my notes from a meeting. Write the recap email to the client and give me my to-do list with dates."

Spreadsheet: "Here's last year's sales. Which customers bought in the first half of the year and not the second?"

Checklist: "I'm going to explain how I do a task. Turn it into a step-by-step checklist a new hire could follow."

Hard conversation: "Play my toughest customer. Push back hard on my price. Don't let me off easy."

Interview: "Ask me one question at a time until you understand what I need."

Sources

Everything here comes from my own daily use. No outside figures are quoted.