Five guides. Pick the one that matches your business.
You are not short on things AI could do in your business. You are short on knowing which one to do first, so the flashy one gets built and the boring one that was quietly costing you the most goes untouched.
Each guide below names the five automations to set up first, in the order that pays back fastest, and says why that order. They are free and there is nothing to fill in. Each one runs in your own AI agent, in Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work, on the tools you already use.
The order is the part that matters. Start there.
If you run an online store
Start at the register and work back up the funnel. Nudging carts over the free-shipping line, saving subscribers at the moment they hit cancel, and harvesting the paid search terms that are already converting.
The First 5 Things to Put Your AI Agent on in Your Store →
If you sell real estate
You do not have a lead problem, you have a response-time problem. This one starts with answering every new lead in two minutes, whether you are at a showing or not, then works outward through scoring, follow-up and your dormant database.
The First 5 Automations for Real Estate Agents →
If you are the whole company
For the one-person business, the first win is getting your day handed to you. A morning briefing telling you who to call, then a ranked call list from your inbound, then a pipeline that keeps moving on the weeks you are buried in client work.
The First 5 Automations for a Solopreneur →
If you coach or consult
Your bottleneck is not leads, it is discovery calls with the right people. This one opens with a call-five-today list out of the leads already sitting in your CRM, then reopens the people who said "not right now" a year ago.
The First 5 Automations for Coaches and Consultants →
If you run an agency
You do not lose accounts on the work, you lose them in the month the reporting slipped. This one starts by turning client feedback into a report you can actually send, then catches the accounts going quiet before the notice email arrives.
The First 5 Automations for an Agency →
None of these quite you?
The five guides overlap more than they differ. The first move is almost always the same one: triage what is already coming in before you go looking for more. Pick the guide closest to how you work and the order will still hold.