Bridge the physical-digital divide in family scheduling. Take a picture of a physical wall calendar and feed it to an AI agent like Claude. Using MCPs for Google Calendar, the agent can parse the image and automatically create or update digital events, even adding buffer time for travel.
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Overwhelmed by emails from his kids' school, Andrew Wilkinson created an automation that ingests all school-related messages. The AI identifies crucial information like deadlines for field trips or packed lunch days, adds them to the family calendar, and sends him timely text alerts to prevent missed tasks.
Webflow's CPO uses a custom set of AI agents built with Claude and Cursor to analyze her calendar for delegation opportunities and triage her inbox by archiving junk, flagging important emails, and drafting replies. This offloads significant cognitive and administrative load from the executive.
LLMs can generate functional, structured files, not just text. A simple, natural language prompt can be used to find unstructured information online (like a sports team's schedule) and create a ready-to-use .ICS calendar file, turning web data into a practical tool without coding.
Beyond professional tasks, assistants can systematically achieve personal goals, from making friends by organizing recurring dinner parties to building family bonds through planned activities. This transforms an assistant from a productivity tool into a life-design partner.
User workflows rarely exist in a single application; they span tools like Slack, calendars, and documents. A truly helpful AI must operate across these tools, creating a unified "desired path" that reflects how people actually work, rather than being confined by app boundaries.
For rapid meeting preparation, simply screenshot the guest list and input it into a vision-enabled AI model. The AI performs OCR to extract names, then triggers an agent to automatically search the web and LinkedIn for each attendee, generating a comprehensive prep document with minimal manual effort.
An executive created a custom AI agent to handle repetitive tasks like meeting prep, calendar triage, and email. This "chief of staff" provides analysis, suggests delegations, and even offers blunt feedback, demonstrating how AI can be personalized to augment executive functions.
The next major leap for AI is its ability to connect disparate apps and data sources (email, calendar, location) to take autonomous actions. This will move AI from a Q&A tool to a proactive agent that seamlessly manages complex workflows.
Instead of describing UI changes with text alone, Google's AI Studio allows users to annotate a screenshot—drawing boxes and adding comments—to create a powerful multimodal prompt. The AI understands the combined visual and textual context to execute precise changes.
Your calendar is the foundation of your execution system. Use AI to scan your schedule, find recurring blocks for deep work on key goals, and automatically suggest rescheduling conflicts. This moves AI from a passive assistant to an active agent that defends your most valuable resource: your time.
