Most service businesses either automate the wrong things or try to automate everything at once. This episode walks through a simple process using Claude to figure out what's actually worth automating, what order to do it in, and what to leave alone.What You'll Walk Away With
1. A method for tracking where your time actually goes each week

2. A scored automation roadmap based on frequency, consistency, and risk

3. A filter for catching the automations that sound good but won't work.

Spend one week logging every repetitive task in your phone's notes app. Paste the full list into Claude and ask it to group by type and estimate weekly time per category. The patterns are easier to see from the outside.Score each task on frequency (how often), consistency (how similar each time), and risk (cost of a mistake). For most service businesses, the first automation is almost always the initial response to new inquiries.Skip anything requiring real judgment on specific situations, anything with volume too low to justify setup time, and anything your customers expect a human to handle. Pressure-test each candidate by describing real examples to Claude and asking whether it's a good fit.

Wil walks through how he repurposes each Frontier AI Labs episode into a newsletter draft, five or more social posts, and a set of show notes using Claude. He covers how to set up a Claude Project with your own writing samples so the output matches your voice, how to prompt for each deliverable in the same conversation, and what the whole workflow costs. About thirty minutes of work after recording for ten pieces of content.

• 0:00 — What the episode covers and what Claude is
• 2:30 — Bio
• 3:00 — Setting up a Claude Project with writing samples and voice context
• 4:30 — Getting a transcript from your phone
• 5:00 — Newsletter: writing a standalone issue from a transcript, not a summary
• 7:00 — Social posts: pulling five posts from different sections of the episode
• 9:00 — Show notes: specific descriptions, timestamps, and keywords for discoverability
• 10:30 — Cost and weekly workflow
• 11:00 — CTA

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• Frontier AI Labs: [youtube.com/channel/UCX3HDBasMU2qS3svgtuzD2g/]
• Claude: [https://claude.ai]
• Book an AI Systems Audit: [https://wilwaldon.com]

Today I want to talk about something I see constantly, which is small businesses putting AI chatbots on their websites and thinking they've solved a problem when they've actually created a new one. I'm going to walk through a better approach using three tools, Claude, Make, and Tally, and by the end you'll know how to replace your chatbot with a form that actually performs better, capture leads without annoying the people visiting your site, and respond to inquiries faster than the chatbot would have anyway.

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