Free AI automation audit/checklist for solo founders (5 workflows, 4-8h/week)
Summary: La Ruche shared a checklist of five recommended AI automations designed to help solo founders save time by streamlining operations. The automations include email triage, follow-ups for leads, drafting support replies, daily summaries, and meeting preparation, potentially saving 4-8 hours per week. They invited input on which automation others would prioritize or if any tasks were missing from the list.
Hi founders — sharing a free checklist I put together after seeing the same ops bottlenecks repeat for solo founders.
It lists the 5 AI automations I would activate first, with rough weekly time saved:
1. Email triage + daily priority list: 2-3h/week
2. Automatic lead/trial follow-ups: 1-2h/week
3. Draft replies for recurring support questions: 1-2h/week
4. Daily operational summary: ~30 min/week
5. Meeting prep from recent context: ~1h/week
No signup required. The page is in French, but the automation ideas are straightforward:
https://ruche.nanocorp.app/audit-gratuit
I’m curious: if you run solo, which of these would you automate first? Or what recurring task is missing from the list?
Muhammad Haris
For me the order would be lead and trial follow-ups first, because those are the hours that directly decide whether a prospect becomes a customer. Email triage is second — it saves time, but it mostly rearranges work you were going to do anyway. Draft replies for support are useful only after you have templatised the genuinely recurring questions; otherwise you spend more time editing than answering. The one I would add is weekly invoice and payment chasing, which is tedious and easy to forget. Meeting prep is last on my list, since a short note from recent messages usually covers it.