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What nobody tells you about the hours automation saves you
The question isn't what to automate. It's what to build with the time you save.
Pallas Advisory
October 01, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Welcome, AI Strategists
💫 Current thoughts: After two years of incremental automation, something strange happened—I had time to think. Not dramatic. Just breathing room between tasks. Mental bandwidth I hadn't had before.
Then I watched the trap everyone falls into:
Consultants get efficient → take on 3x more clients → burn out harder
SMB owners save time → pile on more tasks → miss the real opportunity
I almost did it too. Started taking more clients because I could. Then stopped. Is THIS why I automated? To serve more people faster?
That pause changed everything. Instead of more client work, I built something—Chief of Staff, an AI system for institutional memory. But that's not the point.
The point: automation creates space for strategic thinking—if you don't immediately fill it with busywork.
Most people never notice the opportunity. They just run faster.
This Week's Breakdown
Prompt of the Week:
Find where automation could help you leap past bigger competitors
My business: [brief description]
My bigger competitors: [name 2-3]
Where they beat me: [list advantages they have]
My unique strength: [what you do better]
Identify 3 places where automation could neutralize their size advantage. For each, tell me:
- The specific automation/tool
- Implementation difficulty (easy/medium/hard)
- How this changes the competitive dynamicBecome An AI Expert In Just 5 Minutes
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