The AI Workweek: How to Cut Hours, Automate the Busywork, and Focus on What's Really Important

Gross, Ashley

Use generative AI to reduce your workweek from 40 hours to 15

The AI Workweek: How to Cut Hours, Automate the Busywork, and Focus on What's Really Important delivers a practical playbook for implementing generative AI tools like ChatGPT to eliminate repetitive tasks and reclaim productive time. Ashley Gross, an AI consultant who has led workshops for multiple global corporations and industry leaders, provides step-by-step strategies she used to cut her own workweek from 40 hours to 15.

The book translates enterprise-level AI implementation tactics into actionable guidance for individual professionals and business leaders. Drawing from years of experience leading enterprise-level consulting engagements, Gross shows how to identify automation opportunities, build effective AI workflows, and measure time savings. Each technique addresses specific workplace scenarios where AI can replace manual processes without sacrificing quality or requiring technical expertise.

You'll also discover:

• Specific prompting strategies and workflow templates for automating email, reporting, scheduling, and administrative tasks that consume hours weekly
• Methods for identifying which tasks in your role are candidates for AI automation and which require human judgment
• Real-world case studies from enterprise implementations showing measurable time and revenue gains from AI adoption
• Techniques for scaling personal AI productivity wins into team-wide and department-level automation strategies
• Frameworks for evaluating AI tools and building sustainable workflows that adapt as generative AI capabilities evolve

Whether you're a C-suite executive evaluating AI adoption strategies, a department head seeking efficiency gains, or an individual contributor looking to reclaim hours from busywork, this book provides tested methods for implementing generative AI in ways that deliver measurable time savings and productivity improvements.

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Published by: Wiley

Publication Date: 2026-09-08

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781394378210

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