AI for Everyday Automation
7 AI Workflows to Save Hours at Work Every Week
Most professionals spend their days juggling a constant flow of information, communication, and coordination. Individually, these tasks seem small. Together, they consume hours every week. This book shows you how to use AI to turn these recurring responsibilities into practical, repeatable workflows.
Using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, this book walks you through seven practical workflows for automating emails, meetings, research, reports, task tracking, spreadsheets, content creation, and professional communication. Each workflow includes prompts, templates, and step-by-step guidance that you can immediately apply to your own work.
What you will learn
- ✓Automate email triage and response drafting using AI-assisted workflows
- ✓Generate meeting summaries, action items, and follow-ups in minutes
- ✓Conduct research and create structured briefs faster with AI tools
- ✓Build reports, proposals, and business documents using reusable prompt chains
- ✓Extract tasks and status updates automatically from conversations and meeting notes
- ✓Analyze spreadsheets and messy data without advanced Excel skills
- ✓Create professional content and communications faster while maintaining your personal voice
Table of Contents
- 1. Audit, Arm, Go
- 2. Your First AI Win
- 3. Inbox Zero in 25 Minutes
- 4. Meetings That Actually Work
- 5. Research in 30 Minutes, Not 3 Hours
- 6. First Drafts in 15 Minutes
- 7. Tracked Tasks in 15 Minutes
- 8. Spreadsheets Without Writing Formulas
- 9. Write Once, Use Everywhere
- 10. Your Automated Week
- 11. Appendix
Who this book is for
Professionals who spend a large part of their day handling emails, meetings, reports, research, spreadsheets, and coordination work. Designed for readers who have experimented with AI tools but want practical ways to turn them into reliable everyday productivity systems. No technical background required.
About the Author
Dipankar Sarkar is an engineering leader, AI/ML architect, and author with 18+ years of experience building production systems. Founder of Neul Labs (high-performance AI agent infrastructure in Rust). Former Principal AI Architect at a UK fintech (Edinburgh). IIT Delhi and Arizona State University alumnus. Takshashila Institution alumnus (Strategic Studies). Author of the Nginx Web Server Implementation Cookbook (Packt, 2011). This is his second book with Packt.