This is the audit that tells you, plainly, which parts of your job AI is about to take, and what to do about it before it happens. It's three prompts run back to back, and the results are genuinely eye-opening. The point isn't to panic. It's to be the person who uses AI to get hours back, instead of the person who gets quietly replaced. Here are the three prompts word for word, plus 20 more to stay ahead.
The 3-prompt audit
Step 1: lay out your entire job
Open ChatGPT and run this. It pulls your whole week into the open, including the small stuff you forgot you do.
Act as a senior workflow analyst and break my entire job into every single task I do in a week. Don't skip the small stuff, include the boring admin, the meetings, the emails, all of it.
Step 2: sort it into three buckets
Stay in the same chat and run this. This is where it gets real, because you see exactly how much of your job is already automatable.
Sort every task into three buckets. Bucket one is fully automate, repetitive admin where the cost of getting it wrong is low. Bucket two is AI assists, tasks that need a little of my judgment. Bucket three is I stay in control, anything that changes a relationship or actually needs me.
Step 3: get the hours back and the plan
Now the payoff. This tells you the time you'd save and hands you the steps to do it.
Now tell me exactly how many hours a week I'd save if I automated bucket one starting tomorrow, and build me the step by step plan to do it.
By the end you've got a clear map: what to automate, what to do with AI in the loop, and what to protect because it actually needs you. That last bucket is your job security.
20 more prompts to stay ahead of AI at work
Once you've done the audit, these keep you on the right side of it.
- Turn bucket one into prompts. "Turn each of my fully-automate tasks into a reusable prompt I can run every week."
- Automate one thing now. "Walk me step by step through automating [recurring task], with checks so nothing breaks."
- Protect the human work. "What parts of my job genuinely need a human, and how do I spend more of my time there?"
- The 30-day AI plan. "Build me a 30-day plan to become the person on my team who's best with AI."
- Skills that age well. "Which of my skills get more valuable as AI improves, and which should I stop leaning on?"
- Learn the right tool. "What's one tool I should learn this quarter to stay ahead in my field?"
- Kill the useless meetings. "Look at my recurring meetings and tell me which could be an email or a doc instead."
- Halve your biggest time sinks. "Find the 3 tasks eating most of my week and show me how to cut each one in half."
- Write your SOPs. "Write clear SOPs for my repetitive tasks so I or an AI can run them the same way every time."
- Pitch your manager. "Draft the case for why I should own our team's AI workflows."
- Grow into the next role. "If AI takes the routine parts of my job, what role could I grow into next, and how?"
- Weekly handoff review. "Give me a weekly review prompt that catches the next task I can hand to AI."
- Resume for the AI era. "Rewrite my resume to highlight the judgment and people skills AI can't replace."
- Say no to low-value work. "Help me politely push back on the low-value tasks so I can focus on what only I can do."
- Systemize your inbox. "Turn my inbox into a system: what to auto-handle, what to template, what to keep personal."
- Find the boring 20%. "What's the boring 20% of my job that, if automated, frees up the most time?"
- Delegate to AI safely. "Coach me through handing a task to AI for the first time, with the checks I should keep."
- Copy the top performer. "Show me how a top performer in my role is probably using AI day to day."
- One-page work plan. "Build me a one-page 'AI at work' plan I can actually follow this month."
- Quarterly check-in. "Every quarter, re-run my task audit and tell me what's newly automatable since last time."
The people who get replaced aren't the ones whose tasks AI can do. Everyone has those. They're the ones who never looked, never moved the work, and never spent the freed-up time on the parts that need a human. This audit just makes you look. What you do after is the whole game.
Run the three prompts on your own week tonight. Seeing your job sorted into those three buckets is the kind of clarity most people never get until it's too late.
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Anir Suren