Think about AI and usually people picture big, complex systems—robotics, driverless cars, or smart assistants running everything. In reality, AI can be much simpler and seamless, enabling you to automate the small stuff in your business.
Business is exciting, but a lot of the time it’s about dealing with minor, repetitive tasks, such as follow-up emails, data entry, managing calendars and non-stop scheduling social media posts. While they’re small tasks, they add up and take away time you could be spending on the rest of your business.
Let’s look at how AI can help:
Small Tasks, Big Wins
Automating fiddly, repetitive tasks might not sound ground-breaking, but it can make a huge difference to the amount of time you have. What can AI help with?
- Inbox management: AI-powered tools can categorise, prioritise, and even draft email replies.
- Calendar scheduling: Smart schedulers can find ideal meeting times, avoiding the back-and-forth of finding a time for both parties.
- Customer responses: Chatbots can handle basic customer queries instantly, 24/7, so it means you might not have to invest as heavily in staff to do this.
- Data entry: AI can pull, format, and input data across different platforms without errors.
- Social media planning: Automated platforms can analyse trends and schedule posts for optimal reach.
Once these tasks are automated, you free up time to grow your business, focus on strategy and just having more time to think and be creative.
Where an AI Consultant Comes In
An AI consultant can help you avoid tech jargon and make your business more efficient using AI. Their job is to help spot which processes would benefit from automation, recommend the right tools and set up smart ways to improve business processes.
You’ll share your workday flows and highlight which tasks are draining your time and a consultant will help identify where automation could make the biggest impact. From there, they’ll suggest easy-to-use tools (often no-code or low-code) that can slot right into how you do things with minimal disruption.
The result? Smarter ways of working that don’t require extensive tech know-how.
AI Isn’t About Replacing People
It’s worth saying that AI isn’t anything to be worried about for your team, it’s about helping them to have time to focus on their best work and removing mundane tasks that prevent this. Automation can act like a digital assistant, working quietly in the background, so you can stay focused on growing your business.
The more you use tools, the better and more personalised they can become at tailoring to your business needs.
Automating small tasks with AI might seem like a subtle change, but it can completely transform the amount of time you’ve got to play with in your business. Whether you’re a small business owner, freelancer, or part of a larger team, these small gains can be the biggest thing you do for your business this year.
If you’re not sure where to begin, working with an AI consultant can help – get in touch with our team at DOWO today to get started.
