What AI can do in your industry

The trade changes from one industry to the next. The work of a CEO looks much the same: following cash, chasing overdue invoices, steering the team, running meetings, answering email. That is the work I handed to AI in my own job, and it is where I suggest starting, before the tasks specific to your trade.

Manufacturing

• Read orders and requests for quotation received by email or PDF, and prepare the order entry or the quote for approval.
• Check every night for gaps between orders, stock, deliveries and invoices, and flag only the anomalies.
• Prepare a weekly management note: output, delays, margin per job, cash position.

Construction and contracting

• Summarize each tender received: packages, deadlines, required documents, points to watch.
• Track site progress from site reports and team messages, and prepare the weekly review.
• Prepare progress claims and payment reminders as soon as a due date passes, approved before sending.

Trading and distribution

• Turn orders received by email, PDF or messaging apps into entered orders, with price and quantity checks.
• Spot customers who order less than usual each week, and prepare a follow-up for the account manager.
• Match supplier invoices against purchase orders and delivery notes, and flag the gaps.

Transport and logistics

• Read quote requests and prepare a price proposal from your rate cards.
• Match proofs of delivery and invoices every night, and escalate the gaps.
• Answer clients asking where their shipment is, from the data in your systems, and alert the team when something runs late.

Accounting and law firms

• Sort incoming documents and reconcile bank statements, flagging duplicates and gaps. On my side, the financial tracking built from 10 years of spreadsheets found 368 duplicates and a VAT discrepancy.
• Chase clients for missing documents on fixed dates, with a prepared message for each file.
• Prepare a first read of a contract or a file: summary, key dates, clauses to check, always reviewed by a professional.

Real estate

• Answer inquiries from your website and property portals, qualify the need and offer viewing slots.
• Track rent collection, cheque due dates included, and prepare reminders for late payments, approved before sending.
• Draft listings and viewing reports from your brokers' notes.

Retail and e-commerce

• Sort customer service messages and prepare replies to repetitive questions: order tracking, returns, refunds.
• Write and translate product pages. On my side, 98 website pages have been translated into 3 languages.
• Track sales, stock and margin per product every day, and flag likely stock-outs.

Business services

• Prepare invoices and overdue reminders. On my side, reminders are drafted from 7 days overdue, and I approve them.
• Draft proposals from meeting notes and your past proposals.
• Run internal meetings, publish the minutes and create the tasks. On my side, that is Nora's job.

What every industry shares

Finance, steering, meetings, email: every company has them, and in my own job, my agents handle them under my control. My financial tracking is connected to 3 banks and updated every week. About 190 checks run every night, and only anomalies reach me. My 4 inboxes are sorted about 30 seconds after each email arrives, with replies drafted.

Your industry is not on the list, or your case looks like none of these? Walk me through your business in 30 minutes, and I will tell you what AI can take on. You can also start with the online test or the two-week audit.