AI HandOff

I gave the worst parts of my job to AI. The decks, the meeting notes, the research nobody reads. Every one of those now goes to a tool.

What's left is the work that gets people promoted: judgment, relationships, and the story. That's where the top 5% spend their time, and it's what I write about every week in the Top 5% Method Brief.

AI isn't coming for your job. Someone in the top 5% who uses AI is.

My list

What I handed off, and what I kept

Handed to AI

• ✓Building decks
• ✓Taking meeting notes
• ✓First-pass research
• ✓Editing video into clips
• ✓Typing first drafts

Kept for me

• →Deciding what we do and what we don't
• →The relationships, and every important conversation
• →The story: what I say, and why it matters to this person

Making this list for yourself takes ten minutes. Write down everything you did last week, then mark each item: does a client or your boss pay for my judgment here, or only for the output? The second group is where to start handing off.

Start this week

Two handoffs you can make today

Meeting notes

Record or transcribe your next call (I use Granola), then paste the transcript into Claude with this.

Prompt · After the meeting · Claude

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Here's the transcript of my meeting with [WHO]. Give me:
1. The decisions we made
2. Who owns each next step, and by when
3. Anything I promised to send
4. A follow-up email I can send today, under 120 words, in my voice

Research before a meeting

Run this in Perplexity the night before. You'll walk in knowing more than anyone expected.

Prompt · Meeting brief · Perplexity

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I'm meeting [WHO, ROLE, COMPANY] on [DATE]. Give me a one-page brief:
what the company is focused on right now, recent news, what this person has posted or said publicly, and 3 smart questions I could ask. Cite your sources.