Matching Workflow to Pillar

Module 4 · Section 3 of 5

Matching Workflow to Pillar

Some tasks have a natural home in the stack. Others can sit at different levels depending on how much you’ve invested in building them up.

Writing and content work typically starts fully manual, moves to AI-assisted as you find prompting patterns that work, then to skill-based once those patterns are stable enough to codify. Full automation usually doesn’t apply to original writing — the judgement and voice requirements are too high — but the adjacent tasks (research, structure review, editing pass, social reformatting) often can be automated.

Communication processing — email triage, message summaries, flagging things that need action — is a natural fit for delegation and automation. The mail-triage skill I use runs in about ninety seconds and replaces twenty minutes of inbox management. The judgement calls it surfaces (what’s genuinely urgent, what needs a thoughtful response) stay with me; the mechanical sorting doesn’t.

Information gathering — pulling together calendar data, checking in on project status, monitoring things you care about — is ideal for automation. You care about the information, but you don’t need to be the one who fetches it. The morning-brief is the clearest example: I want to know what’s on my calendar and what needs attention before I start work, but I don’t need to be the one opening apps and copying information together.

Code and technical work sits in an interesting position. Claude Code is excellent at well-defined technical tasks — writing a specific function, debugging a clear error, generating boilerplate. For those, delegation with review is the right model. For architecture decisions, security-sensitive changes, or anything where the implications aren’t fully specified, staying manual is the right call.

Administrative and logistical tasks — scheduling, invoicing, file organisation — vary widely. Some can be fully automated (scheduled backups, regular reports), some are good skill candidates (processing a specific type of document, reformatting data), and some genuinely need you (anything involving negotiation or relationship context).