Hand the boring work to an agent|INEMA.CLUB-PRO

Lesson 1 · 15 min

Find the right boring task

You don’t need to automate your whole business. You need one task: the one that takes time every week, feels tedious, and won’t cause damage if it goes wrong. In this lesson, AI interviews you about your week and makes a list; you choose the first task.

Start the lesson
Man around 45, sitting at a table at night, checking items on a paper task list; a laptop and a mug beside him.

In this lesson, you’ll

  1. 1List what you repeat every week
  2. 2Rate the time, boredom, and risk
  3. 3Set aside anything that affects money or clients
  4. 4Choose the agent’s first task

Goal: make a list of your repetitive tasks and choose the first one for the agent: lots of time, lots of boredom, low risk.

01From a packed week to the first task

Click each step to see what happens.

Click each block in the diagram to see what it does.

One new task per week, never several at once (lesson 8).

02How to rate tasks without getting stuck

Click each criterion.

1. Minutes

Add up the time: 15 minutes a day, five days a week, is 75 minutes per week.

A 5-minute task once a month is rarely worth the work of setting up an agent.

ExampleCopying orders from WhatsApp into a spreadsheet: 20 min a day, 100 min a week.

03The prompt that interviews you

Copy and paste this into a new ChatGPT or Claude conversation. Take your time answering the questions.

In chat · find the boring task
Help me find the computer task I should hand over to an AI agent first.

Ask me these questions ONE AT A TIME and wait for my answer:
1. What’s a typical week like for me? What do I do on the computer that’s boring or repetitive?
2. Which websites, systems, or apps do I use every week?
3. What do I copy from one place and paste into another?
4. Which numbers or reports do I put together every week?
5. When a new client comes in, what do I need to enter or prepare, and in which tools?

Then make a list with ONE LINE PER TASK, in this format:
N | task | apps | X min | boredom N | low/medium/high risk | start now / later / do not delegate

Rules:
- Any task that involves money or talks to a client is at least medium risk.
- Paying, sending, deleting, or signing is high risk and must be marked "do not delegate".
- Only ONE line can say "start now": the task that combines the most minutes and the most boredom with low risk.
- Sort from the best first task to the worst.

At the end, write: "Your first task is ___" and a paragraph saying what goes in (where the data comes from), what comes out (what I receive), and how often. I’ll use that paragraph in the agent sheet.
Example of a finished list (a custom furniture store)
1 | Weekly website report for your business partner | Search Console (Google’s free dashboard), spreadsheet | 60 min | boredom 5 | low risk | start now
2 | Copy quotes from email to the spreadsheet | Gmail, spreadsheet | 90 min | boredom 4 | medium risk | later
3 | Enter supplier invoices in accounts payable | email, spreadsheet | 45 min | boredom 5 | medium risk | later
4 | Set up a folder and schedule for the new client | Drive, spreadsheet | 40 min | boredom 3 | medium risk | later
5 | Pay suppliers | banking app | 30 min | boredom 3 | high risk | do not delegate
Simulation: illustrative example
  1. The list has at least 5 lines, one per task.
  2. Every line has minutes, boredom, risk, and a decision.
  3. Only one line says start now, and its risk is low.
  4. Paying, sending, or deleting is marked do not delegate.

04Check your list

Test first with the example that passes and the one with an error. Then paste your list. The page checks the format (a number, minutes, risk, and decision on each line); you decide whether the order makes sense.

tasks.txt

05Practice: your list and your first task

Follow the steps in order. Move on only when "done when" is true.

E1 · The interview

15 min

Paste the request "find the boring task" into a new ChatGPT or Claude conversation and answer the five questions based on your actual past week.

Done when: the AI returned a list with at least 5 lines in the format N | task | ... | decision.

E2 · Check and adjust

10 min

Paste the list into the checker above. Fix anything missing by hand or by asking the AI. Check that paying, sending, or deleting is marked "do not delegate".

Done when: the checker responds OK and only one line says "start now".

E3 · Save the list

5 min

Save the list and final paragraph in a file called tasks.txt (or in a note). You’ll come back to it in lessons 2 and 8.

Done when: the file exists, and the paragraph for the first task says where the data comes from, what you receive, and how often.

06Test what you learned

The explanation appears after your answer.

Question 1 of 4

Which of these is the best first task for an agent?

07The lesson in three sentences

One taskDon't automate everything: choose the task that adds up to the most time and boredom, with low risk.
Risk firstMoney or a client starts at medium risk; you handle payments, sending, deleting, and signing.
The list comes backThe other tasks can wait their turn. Add one new task per week, never several at once.

To go further

Course: From prompt to role (how to write the work for AI)Course: From chat to agent (the steps up to the terminal)
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