--- title: "Where AI Actually Fits in Your Job | StartCloud" url: https://startcloud.au/learn/where-ai-fits-your-job description: "Module 8 of our free AI at Work: Foundations pathway: audit your own week, learn the five shapes of task AI handles well, know what to keep for yourself, and build one habit that sticks." lang: en --- Module 8 of StartCloud's AI at Work: Foundations learning pathway, in five short units with a knowledge check: a practical way to audit your own working week for tasks worth handing over, the five shapes of task AI handles well (drafting, summarising, reformatting, explaining, brainstorming), the tasks to keep for yourself, and how to build one small habit rather than changing everything at once. # Where AI actually fits in your job Module 8 · Practice Unit 1 of 5 · about 2 min ## Audit your own week Most people meet AI the wrong way round. A tool turns up, everyone has a play, and then the search begins for something useful to do with it. That is how you end up with a very expensive way to write birthday messages. Start at the other end. **Your week already knows where the problem is.** For one normal working week, keep a scrappy list on your phone. Every time you catch yourself doing something repetitive, or something that takes far longer than it should, jot down what it was, how long it took and how often it comes around. No categories, no app, no neat handwriting. A running note is plenty. At the end of the week you will have somewhere between ten and thirty items. Run each one past four questions. \1. How often does it come round? Something you do every Monday is worth ten times more attention than something you do every June. Frequency is what turns a small saving into a real one, and it is also what gives you enough repetitions to get good at asking for the thing you want. \2. How much of the time is thinking, and how much is typing? A task that takes an hour of hard thought and ten minutes of typing is not an AI task. A task that takes five minutes of thought and fifty of formatting, rewording and tidying almost certainly is. Split the job in your head before you judge it. \3. How much of it is you? Some work needs your judgement, your relationships or your reputation. That is not a chore, that is the job. Look instead for the packaging around it: the write-up, the summary, the version of the same thing for a different audience. \4. If the answer came back wrong, would you notice? This is the real gate and almost nobody applies it. If you could spot a mistake in seconds, hand it over cheerfully. If checking would take longer than doing it yourself, or if you simply could not tell, then there is no time saving here, just risk with a nicer font. The sweet spot Frequent, mostly mechanical, not much riding on it, and obvious the moment it goes wrong. That is where you start, and it is usually the least glamorous item on your list. The exciting ideas can wait until the boring one is running smoothly. StartCloud assistant Online G'day! 👋 I'm the StartCloud assistant. 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