Automation time audit: write down the job before you hand it to a bot

A written list of one job, step by step: what you do, which tool or app you use, the decision you make at each step, and how many minutes it takes you. You mark each step as one a bot can draft, one that needs your OK, or one you keep. The result is a job description you can hand to a bot or a person, plus your own weekly time total for that job.

Because a bot can only follow what you can describe. Our first-week plan starts the same way: pick one job and write it down in one sentence, saying what it does, when, and where the result goes. Listing the steps shows which parts are routine and which need your judgment. If you haven't picked the job yet, start with the First 3 bots planner.

Bot can draft: the bot does the work and leaves a draft or a note for you, and nothing leaves your business. Needs your OK: the bot prepares it, then stops and asks before it sends, posts, pays or changes anything. Keep human: you keep doing that step, and the bot lists what you need for it. Start with more steps on Needs your OK than you think you need, and loosen them one at a time once the drafts are right.

It's your own arithmetic: the minutes you entered for each step, added up, times how often you do the job. We don't measure anything or add our own estimates, and a bot won't save all of it, because steps you keep or approve still take some of your time.

Copy the Grok Bot prompt and paste it into a chat with the Bot that should do the job. Grok Bot sets up a routine when you ask in chat, and Cursor's Grok Bot help says to open the routine and check When to run afterward. A test run does real work, so test it with a safe example. Back up the approval step with an Ask first rule, as our Grok Bot approvals guide explains, then check the prompt with the routine checker.

No. The page works in your browser only. Nothing is saved, sent to us or shared, and it's gone when you leave or reload the page. Copy the job description and prompt before you go.