I went through a very stressful time at work recently.
I did a work task where I had to do many steps just to send out 1 pdf, when I had 130 of them to do.
Create PDF, using mail merge to enter in information of each team. Each team has a pdf.
I then load them into DocuSign to sign.
Upload pdf.
Enter body and subject line text.
Enter in 7 people and change 6 of them from “to sign” to “receive copy only”
For the one who signs, I go into the pdf then click on where they initial and sign.
This entire process is probably 8 to 9 minutes each each is difficult to balance with my work, physical health, mental health, etc. Feels like I have to do stuff like this every 2 weeks.
Copilot was unfortunately not very useful for this, because the work is done from multiple different windows and apps. It lacks alot of context. I intend to learn AutoHotKey, scripting, macros, to save time on my workflows, but also find the fastest way to teach copilot what I need.
As I was thinking about this, would this be a useful at all? Its essentially “give me the context for a workflow, and ill make it faster or more accurate”
I have not created anything for this, but if I hear that it is, I wanna try.
With all the colleges, libraries, biotech places, hospitals, I feel like it could useful, especially for workers who have workflows their supervisors don’t understand. I certsinly was looking for local people like this, but I only saw like AI chatbot implementation services.
Sorry if this sounds like an ad, I hope it doesn’t, I haven’t made anything even, just brainstorming. Sorry if this is not allowed!
Tl:dr
I felt very hopeless these past couple of months and completed a stressful work task recently. The following day, after processing that bs, I was thinking of making a side business where I help peoples workflows. Would that be appealing to you?
Yeah I could apply for a new job, but how long will that take? This would reduce pain for people. Theres career coaches, therapists, financial advisors, where are the “make my work less bs” people?
My task that took 8 to 9 minutes? What if I found a way to make it 3 to 4? Would that appeal to you? AI doesn’t have context, I would. And if you wanna use AI? I will find the fastest and most optimal way to give it the context.
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