How I AI: 8 tasks you should never do manually again

How I AI: 8 tasks you should never do manually again

From How I Work by Amantha Imber

June 7, 2026 · 16 min

About this episode

In this episode, Amantha and Neo discuss eight tasks that knowledge workers should automate using AI to enhance productivity and reduce manual effort.

**Join the AI Agent Bootcamp here:  https://www.inventium.ai/learnvirtually-agents **  You have access to AI. You probably use it a fair bit. And yet there's a good chance you're still manually scrubbing through meeting transcripts, tabbing between LinkedIn and Google News before every sales call, and spending 20 minutes writing an executive summary for a paper you just finished writing.  That gap between having AI and actually letting it take things off your plate is where a lot of time quietly disappears.   In this How I AI episode, Neo and I walk through eight tasks that knowledge workers should never have to do manually again, and what it actually looks like to hand them off to agents.  How I AI is a special series within How I Work where Neo and I explore how high performers are using AI at work to boost productivity, make better decisions and reduce overwhelm.  What you'll learn in this episde:  Which meeting-related tasks are the easiest to hand off to an agent  How to build a pre-meeting briefing agent for sales and business…

People in this episode

Host: Amantha Imber

Guest: Neo

Topics covered

  • AI productivity
  • knowledge work
  • task automation
  • meeting efficiency
  • AI tools
  • work-life balance

Keywords

  • AI
  • productivity
  • automation
  • meeting tasks
  • executive summary
  • inbox agents
  • workflows
  • high performers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Inventium

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