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The AI runs my wife's shop back office and replaced a $600 a month ads manager

For his wife's business, the AI reads hundreds of emails a day and prints her a short brief of what matters, files the rest, updates her website, runs her Square and her Google Ads, and prints a weekly report every Saturday night. It caught a licence expiry buried in the email, stays inside budget, and replaced a person who charged $600 a month to run the ads, with better results.

$600a month

How it works

  1. Read the day's email
  2. Group it and print a brief of what is important
  3. Archive, trash and label the rest
  4. Update the website when told
  5. Run Square, who is enabled for which days and hours and what prices to set
  6. Run Google Ads and Square marketing inside budget
  7. Print a Saturday night report for the week
  8. Report any changes every 3 days

Why it’s worth knowing

One agent holds the inbox, the till, the website and the ads for a small business, and it has never gone over budget or deleted anything without asking.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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