Start Using AI With One Small Task | Businessing

Businessing with Pat Miller · Sep 2, 2026 · 29m

Most owners stall out on AI because they're trying to hand off the whole business at once. Start with one small task instead.

Think of everything you have to get done in a week as a deck of 52 cards. A few of them are aces, the work only you can do. Most of them are twos of diamonds, the small repeatable stuff that eats your week and grows nothing. Every time you teach your AI to handle one of those little cards, you get to fold it and never deal with it again. Pat walks through his own two of diamonds, the weekly receipt filing he handed off to Claude, and the ten minutes it takes to find…