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Secretary work he could not fund replaced: to-do list more than halved in 4 days, about £2600 of work

Picked and checked by Olga Pearson, host of The Practical AI Show · Published

Result

self-reported

Four days into Grok Bot, after a few hours of use, it more than halved his to-do list. He estimates about £2600 and more than 2 weeks of work saved, on a £30/month plan. He runs a small UK business with no funds for a secretary.

EddieJ (@K4d3sh) is a UK business owner. He started Grok Bot with no secretary budget. In four days of light use he says the bot more than halved his to-do list and estimates the cleared work at about £2600 and over two weeks, for £30 a month.

Who did it

EddieJ (@K4d3sh)Small UK businessEddieJ (@K4d3sh) on X · Nov 4, 2026

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  1. Paste your current to-do list and mark what is secretary-type grunt work vs decisions only you can make.
  2. Have Grok Bot draft the grunt items first (emails, summaries, research packs) with approve-before-send.
  3. Clear or delegate each finished draft the same day so the list actually shrinks.
  4. After a week, price the cleared tasks at what a temp or secretary would have cost.
  5. Keep spending and external sends as human-approved.
Copy-paste prompt
Here is my to-do list for this week [paste]. Split it into (1) grunt work you can draft for me and (2) decisions only I can make. Draft the grunt items with every send marked [DO NOT SEND UNTIL I APPROVE]. Estimate hours each item would take a person.

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What to watch out for

Self-reported after only 4 days; the £2600 and "2 weeks" are his estimate, and he does not list which tasks cleared. Treat as early signal, not a full case study. Build it with Page: a simple services page so drafted emails can point somewhere real.

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