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Book 3 of 10 · Capable Beginner tier

Automate the Boring Stuff

Hand the repetitive work to software that never sleeps.

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Every business runs on small, dull jobs done by hand: copying data, sending the same email, chasing the same follow-up. This book teaches you no-code automation — the kind you build by clicking, not coding — so those jobs run themselves. Set one up, watch it work, and get your evenings back.

It starts with your first automation, built in the book alongside you, then widens out into the places automation pays off fastest: email and inbox rules, leads and customer follow-up, marketing and social, admin and files, scheduling. Partway through, it shows you where a touch of AI makes an automation smarter rather than just faster — the natural bridge into the rest of the series.

It's equally honest about the edges: testing an automation properly, what happens when one fails silently, and the specific situations where automating something is the wrong call.

Who it's for

Anyone tired of doing the same manual task over and over who has never touched automation before.

What you'll learn

  • Hand one repetitive job to no-code automation and never touch it again
  • Think in workflows: triggers, steps and the jobs worth automating first
  • Automate email, leads, marketing, admin and scheduling
  • Add a touch of AI to make automations smarter, not just faster
  • Know when NOT to automate — and how to keep it reliable

Inside the book

  1. 00Stop Doing It by Hand
  2. 01What Automation Actually Is
  3. 02The No-Code Tools
  4. 03Your First Automation
  5. 04Thinking in Workflows
  6. 05Email & Inbox Automations
  7. 06Lead & Customer Automations
  8. 07Marketing & Social Automations
  9. 08Admin, Files & Data Automations
  10. 09Scheduling & Calendar Automations
  11. 10Adding AI to Your Automations
  12. 11Testing, Errors & Reliability
  13. 12Cost, Limits & Scaling
  14. 13Security & When Not to Automate
  15. 14Your 30-Day Automation Plan

What this can look like at this level

The kind of week each book is built to produce.

E-commerce customer support

a growing support inbox with slow response times. Moved to AI-drafted replies that a human reviews before sending.

This pattern generally cuts response times substantially while keeping a person in control of what actually gets sent.

Recruitment or a hiring-heavy business

screening a large volume of applications by hand. Moved to a structured AI screening pass against a scored rubric, with a human making the final call.

This tends to make shortlisting faster and more consistent, without removing human judgement from the decision.

Questions people ask about this book

Do I need to know how to code for no-code automation?

No — that's the point of the tools this book covers. You're clicking together triggers and steps in a visual builder, not writing scripts.

What if an automation breaks while I'm not looking?

Chapter 11 is entirely about this — testing properly before you rely on something, and building in the alerts that tell you the moment a workflow fails silently.

Does this replace the AI tool I set up from Book 1?

No, it connects to it. This book is about the plumbing around your AI assistant — the follow-ups, data entry and scheduling that happen whether or not a human is watching.