Field notes · 2026-07-12

What can I actually automate at home with AI?

What qualifies

Anything that recurs on a schedule, reads from information you already have, and produces something you would recognize as done. In practice that means morning briefings, weekly meal plans, family logistics reminders, bookings inside hard money limits, and follow-up drafts held for your approval. Jake's own fleet has run thousands of these; the telemetry is public. The full personal offer is on the personal page.

What works today, from a real fleet

These all run in my house right now.

  • A briefing built overnight from the calendar, the weather, and the news, ready before the alarm
  • A weekly meal plan drafted around the real schedule, grocery list included, approved with one look
  • Tee times booked the moment windows open, under a spending cap the automation cannot raise
  • Reminders that fire before the school pickup change, not after
  • Drafts of the awkward follow-up you keep not sending, queued for your ok

What not to bother automating

One-off tasks, anything you actually enjoy, and anything where the thinking is the value rather than the chore. Automating a decision you want to make just moves the work to reviewing the automation. That is the first thing a free Teardown checks, and "do not automate this" is a real answer we give.

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