1. Find local businesses already advertising, as sponsor leads

For a local newsletter, the agent finds businesses already running local ads, checks they serve the area, finds the contact info they publish, and saves each lead with the original ad attached. It never guesses contact details and flags anything it couldn't verify.

2. Agent cleans up a company's books, then waits for approval

Through a free, open-source tool the author built for his accounting software, the agent cut uncategorized transactions from 183 to 4, pulled 22 missing invoices from Gmail, and surfaced 3 overdue VAT returns in one afternoon. Nothing is changed until the owner approves.

3. Morning briefing on an e-ink screen the family reads

Every morning at 7, the agent puts the day's calendar, top to-dos and weather on a paper-like e-ink screen in the living room. The author's wife reads it over coffee, and it became the family's shared to-do list. Setup took about 20 minutes.

4. Agent chases a bank that ignored you, then drafts the complaint

The agent noticed a credit card application had gone unanswered for a year. It followed up with the bank every day, citing the regulator's rules, then filled in a complaint to India's banking ombudsman with a full timeline and waited for the owner to click submit.

5. Clear the pull request queue before your first coffee

Asked to merge the pull requests waiting on him, the agent merged seven, found one with conflicts, had a second agent rebase it, then merged that one too.

Find local businesses already advertising, as sponsor leads

Find [10] local businesses already advertising in [city or area], in local newsletters, papers, websites or social ads. For each one, confirm they serve [area], find the contact info they publish on their own site or listing, and save the business name, contact, source link and a copy of the ad to [a spreadsheet]. Never guess an email or phone number. If you can't verify something, mark it unverified.