Dots
Two hours of admin, fifteen minutes
Casey Newton just co-founded a new podcast company. The company admin landed on him. In one afternoon he gave an agent in ChatGPT, named Dots, a batch of tasks. It drafted an email to their lawyer. It answered questions from his bookkeeper. It filled an insurance broker form. For the form it found the lease, checked city websites, and read budget documents. It answered all but two questions on its own.
How it wentNewton estimates about 2 hours of work done for about 15 minutes of his effort. It was a limited test. He had access for only a couple of hours. His figures, from his article.
Try it · based on the source's workflow
Handle this admin batch for [company]. Use only the documents I give you access to: [lease, budget, policy documents]. 1) Draft a reply to [request] that declines politely because of the conflict on [date]. 2) Draft an email to our lawyer about [topic]. 3) Answer the bookkeeper questions you can answer from the documents, and list the ones you cannot. 4) Fill in [form] from the documents and list every field you had to leave blank. Show me every draft before anything is sent.
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