Five starter tasks for your AI agent

Five recurring office jobs you can hand to an AI agent this month. Each comes with a copy-paste instruction, the tool it suits and the check a person does before anything leaves the building. All five only read and prepare: none sends, deletes or pays on its own.

How to use it: fill in the [brackets], test the instruction once while you watch, then schedule it. In Claude, use Scheduled > New task (Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise). In ChatGPT, select Work and ask it to “schedule this task”, then manage it under Scheduled (Plus, Pro, Business or Enterprise). In Microsoft Copilot Cowork, describe the timing in your message and manage it under Automations. Start with number 1, run it for two weeks, then add the next.