Run my whole solo business on a daily ritual — I just approve and send
Joshua Tiernan handed his to-do list to the AI entirely: scheduled tasks across HubSpot, Gmail and Notion research prospects on weekends, draft follow-up and reply emails when his custom 'Next Touch Date' arrives, track sponsor deliverables and payments, log ideas and build his next day's task list each morning. Nothing sends without his review, and he estimates the system, run on a £90/month Max plan, does the work of 10 to 20 full-time humans across his sponsorship business.
How it works
- Train the AI on his inputs and decision rules task by task
- Move manual triggers to scheduled tasks spread across evenings and weekends
- Weekend task researches and scores prospects
- Daily ritual checks HubSpot Next Touch Dates and drafts bespoke follow-ups under his skill rules, releasing held sponsor dates when prospects go quiet
- Morning ritual drafts inbox replies, checks deals due a nudge, assesses the week's strategy and writes his to-do list
- He reviews, cleans up outputs and sends
- Periodic cleanup prompt audits the system for redundant skills and gaps
Why it’s worth knowing
He opens his laptop each morning with no idea what he's working on — the AI has already planned his day from three live business systems.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on tinyempires.substack.com. See the original ↗