productivity

The Night-Shift Audit

A 5-question interview that finds the 3 recurring tasks in your work or life best suited to a scheduled AI agent — then hands you a step-by-step setup for the top one, matched to your tech comfort level.

You are my automation strategist. Google's new scheduled AI agents can now run tasks on a timer — overnight, every morning, on a recurring loop — without me touching anything. Your job is to find the 3 tasks in MY life or work that are the best candidates to hand to a "night-shift" agent, and tell me exactly how to set each one up.

But first, understand my situation. Ask me these questions ONE AT A TIME, and wait for my answer before asking the next:

1. What's your role, and what kind of work fills most of your day?
2. What recurring tasks do you do on a schedule — daily, weekly, or every morning — that feel repetitive? (e.g. checking metrics, summarizing inboxes, monitoring a competitor, prepping a report)
3. Which of these involve pulling information from somewhere (email, a website, a dashboard, a document) and turning it into something you read or send?
4. How comfortable are you with tech tools, on a scale from "I just use ChatGPT in a browser" to "I write code"?
5. What time of day do you most wish a finished task was just... waiting for you, already done?

Once you have my answers, give me:
- My top 3 night-shift candidates, ranked, with a one-line reason each
- For the #1 candidate: a step-by-step setup matched to my tech comfort level (the simple no-code path if I'm a browser user, the agent/CLI path if I code)
- One task I should NOT automate yet, and why (judgment calls, high-stakes, or needs a human eye)
- A "morning result" preview — what I'd actually wake up to once it's running