# 4 tasks that solopreneurs can hand over to AI > Source: > Published: 2026-06-29 09:00:00+00:00 Right now, I have (checks computer) more than a dozen scheduled tasks that [AI](https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence) handles for me. Plus, countless other saved instructions to run repeatable processes on the fly. Most AI advice focuses on content generation or chatbot conversations. But what a large company needs and what an individual consumer might do with artificial intelligence are vastly different from the needs of a solopreneur: one person, with some business use cases. Solopreneurs can get a lot of benefit from handing off specific *operational* tasks. This type of work keeps your business running smoothly, but it isn’t the best use of your time. Solopreneurs accumulate data across tools—like spreadsheets, client files, and project notes. Keeping everything organized requires a little bit of judgment (“this file goes in this folder”), but the work isn’t complex enough to need *your* attention. That’s why it’s a good task for AI. For example, I keep track of my client work and online writing in a giant database. Each article has a few categories added, so I can find it again. Previously, it was a manual task for me to select a few categories based on the topic. Now, AI can make the selection for me from a predefined list. Is it perfect? No. But it’s about 90% correct, and that’s good enough for this task, especially since I don’t have to think about it anymore. AI can also organize emails in your inbox or files on your computer. I’ve had AI rename hundreds of files across my Google Drive, so they’re consistent. Was it absolutely necessary? No. Did it make my life better? Absolutely. Most solopreneurs create content in one format and leave it there. AI can take what you’ve written and adapt it for different platforms, so you get more mileage out of it. To be clear: This isn’t AI generating content from scratch. Lots of AI advice tells people to do this, and that’s how “AI slop” is created. In this case, AI is reformatting your existing ideas. A blog post becomes social media posts. A newsletter becomes posts for a different platform. These are still your core ideas, but AI handles the translation to different formats. When I publish a blog post, AI creates drafts of the social media posts for me, based on a lengthy set of instructions and examples of my voice and tone. I always edit before publishing, but it’s a lot easier to edit something existing than stare at a blank screen. One of the hardest parts of solopreneurship is not having anyone to keep you on track. There’s no manager checking on your upcoming tasks and goals. It’s easy to let weeks pass without reviewing whether you’re making progress. AI can run structured check-ins, like weekly, monthly, or quarterly. The check-in process reviews what you accomplished, what fell through the cracks, and what you should prioritize next. During my weekly check-in, AI follows the exact same structure. Last week’s check-in is written to a single document, so AI can reference the document as memory. I get prompts like, “You said you would work on XYZ last week. What got done, and what is still outstanding?” When I see a list of what I said I’d get done versus what I actually got done, I can ask myself: Why did that happen? I type my responses, and it gets logged for the following week’s session. The ongoing list keeps me on track. AI is really good for tasks like research, brainstorming, or summarizing a long document. AI isn’t replacing your thinking, but it gives you a starting point. Recently, I was considering a new AI notetaker app for meetings. I gave AI a list of the features that are important to me and told it to research my options. I got a list of results and recommendations. I still had to verify that the information was correct, but it was much faster and more personalized than digging through Google search results. **Tip**: Always ask your AI tool to summarize the conversation into a document that you can save elsewhere. I saved my AI notetaker research as a Google Doc. That way, I could come back to it later, rather than digging through my chat conversations. The specific tool—like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini—doesn’t matter. Any of them should be able to handle the tasks I’ve described here. You can save your instructions or use features like Projects, Skills, or Gems, depending on the tool. It’s more important that you provide specific context about who you are, your business, and your content. Without it, you’ll get generic output, which won’t end up saving you any time.