Hey Friends,

Last month, I missed my son's Student-Led Conference.

Not my finest moment as a parent.

But honestly? It's a lot to juggle — work emails, client meetings, school notifications, after-school pickups. I don't know how you all manage to keep track of it all.

So I stopped trying to do it manually.

I built an AI automation that reads every school email, every notification, every last-minute schedule change — and organises it all into my calendar with priority flags.

Now? I haven't missed a single school event since.

That's what happens when you use AI to kill your ROBOTS.

Let me explain.

ROBOTS stands for: Repeated, Obligatory, Boring, Operational Tasks.

(Yes, I need to put this on a T-shirt for the Christmas party.)

These are the things no one wants to do, but everyone has to do. The repetitive work that drains time, energy, and honestly — your will to live.

Checking emails for sales queries. Processing invoices. Updating spreadsheets. Responding to the same questions over and over. Following up on bookings.

We all have them.

The CEO has them. The manager has them. The admin team definitely has them.

And here's the truth most people miss: you're not drowning in work. You're drowning in repetition.

Having an AI assistant is helpful. Sure.

Having assistive agents that answer internal questions? That's a solid first step.

But here's where businesses actually start to see measurable ROI: automation agents.

Agents that don't just answer questions — they complete workflows.

At Enterprise Monkey, we worked with an NDIS funding provider that had seven people processing invoices every single day. When we asked if those seven people could be doing something else, the answer was immediate: "Yes. We have a backlog of work that would actually grow the business."

By automating invoice processing, we didn't eliminate jobs. We eliminated the soul-crushing repetition and freed those team members to do work that actually mattered.

That's the shift.

Not replacement. Optimisation.

I'm seeing it everywhere.

People hear "automation" and immediately think: This is too technical. This will replace people. This is risky.

So they do nothing.

And that's the Dumb Monkey Move.

Because here's what's actually happening: automation isn't optional anymore. The question isn't if your competitors will automate — it's when. And if you're still manually doing what they've automated, you're already behind.

But the good news? You don't need a technical team to start.

Before AI, automation was clunky.

You could connect System A to System B, but you couldn't make them understand each other. The information would transfer, but it couldn't adapt, contextualise, or think.

That's changed.

Now, with tools like Make.com (perfect for beginners) or N8N (great for enterprises who want to host it internally), you can build workflows that actually understand what they're processing.

Here's how it works:

Step 1: Start with a trigger

An email arrives. A meeting ends. A form is submitted.

Step 2: Add AI modules

Drag and drop ChatGPT, Claude, or built-in AI tools into your workflow. They read, interpret, and act on the information.

Step 3: Complete the action

Update your CRM. Draft a proposal. Send a notification. Book an appointment.

It's like hiring a team of specialists who never sleep, never complain, and never forget.

We built an automation for client meetings.

When a discovery call finishes, the system automatically:

What used to take hours now takes minutes.

And here's the key: we're still in the loop. We review. We tweak. We approve.

But we're not starting from scratch every single time.

You don't need to automate your entire business overnight.

Start with one workflow. One pain point.

Walk into your office tomorrow and ask your team: "What are the top three things you have to do all the time that you really don't like doing?"

Pick one. Build an automation around it.

Maybe it's:

Whatever it is — that's your starting point.

Here's how to think about risk and quality control.

When you hire an intern, you don't give them the keys to the kingdom on day one. You supervise. You check their work. You give feedback.

Do the same with your automation agents.

At first:

✅ Review every output

✅ Check the logs

✅ Test edge cases

As confidence grows:

✅ Set up daily reports

✅ Audit weekly

✅ Let it run with guardrails

Advanced setup:

✅ Use confidence thresholds (if confidence is below 80%, flag for human review)

✅ Build in escalation paths (if the AI doesn't know, route to a person)

✅ Create a risk matrix (likelihood vs. impact of errors)

And always, always keep humans in the loop.

Because AI can handle the repetitive work brilliantly — but judgment, creativity, and empathy? That's still ours.

In the next few years, professionals won't just manage people.

They'll manage a blend of humans and AI agents — training them, refining them, and aligning them with business goals.

And the ones who figure this out early? They'll multiply their output while their competitors are still stuck in manual mode.

So here's my challenge to you:

One repetitive, boring, obligatory task that's stealing your time?

Find it. Automate it. Kill it.

Because when you free yourself from the ROBOTS, you finally get to do the work that actually matters.

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And if you want to see how a construction CEO automated his entire tender process (and saved his sanity), check out the automation chapter in The CEO Who Mocked AI (Until It Made Him Millions)

The Takeaway:

Your worth won't come from how fast you can process invoices or respond to emails.

It'll come from how well you design, manage, and improve the systems that do it for you.

Stop feeding the ROBOTS.

Start building the bots that kill them.

Let's go.

— Aamir

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