When I started work in the late 90s, email had just arrived and there were senior execs who'd get their PAs to print them out, annotate them by hand, then have the PA type up the replies. It looked absurd from where we were sitting... but honestly, it made a kind of sense - their two-finger, jabby and pointy, ten words a minute typing genuinely was more expensive than paying someone else to do it, and besides, they were retiring in a few years so you couldn't really argue with it (and because I was Gen X, I didn't).
So what's your excuse for doing the same with AI?
You've got 15+ years of career left and if you're anything like I was 36 months ago, you're nervous about looking stupid, you don't have time to learn something new and you've no idea where to even start. So, what, you've delegated it to the team and told yourself that counts?
It doesn't.
Perhaps try this: imagine an AI Chief of Staff that actually knows your context, your priorities, your decisions. One that maintains a rolling picture of your projects, flags what's stuck, tracks what you're waiting on from others and prepares your thinking before you need it. One that captures all those ideas you email yourself at 11pm and actually surfaces them when they're relevant, instead of letting them rot in your inbox. Not a chatbot you have to re-explain everything to every time - a persistent system that learns how you work.
The tool exists. It's called Claude Code and most people think it's for developers... which is like saying a Swiss Army knife is just for cutting. Yes, you'll need to have a conversation with your SecOps team - we'll give you that argument in the longer piece on our site. But getting Claude Code to become an AI chief of Staff took me 30 minutes and I called it Jarvis. I know. I'm sorry.
The tools aren't hard. But you can't delegate the learning - start with your own workflows. There's a full walkthrough on our website (link in comments) of how I did it - please copy it and give it a go - it's the best way to learn. Or just call us.
I've also got it in a repo in our AgentFlow GitHub if you would rather - but if you know what that means, you probably won't need the link to it - Ask me if you want it and I'll ping it to you.
(And if you've already got a great EA or Chief of Staff? Learn this together. It's not about replacing them - it's about supercharging what you can both do.)
(Credit to Nate B. Jones whose YouTube and Substack first got me thinking about this - give him a follow, he's a legend.)
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