Heirloom Tools
No AI — fixed rules · ~7 minRooted AI Workflow Builder
One recurring task, turned into a sequence you can hand to somebody. It maps what happens today, rates what the work touches, and returns a redesign where every step says who runs it — a person, an AI, or software running on its own. It will tell you to write the process down instead, when that is the honest answer.
What it does
- Map what happens now before proposing anything, because the current state is what a redesign has to beat
- Keep AI assistance and automation apart — one can be confidently wrong, the other keeps running after it stops being right
- Refuse a design outright where the material should not be going into an ordinary AI service
- Produce the smallest version that would work, alongside the full one
- Write a hand-over document, a prompt with its guardrails, and a way to measure whether it helped
What it does not do
- Treat more automation as better. Level 1 is the right answer more often than it gets chosen
- Generate runnable automations, or invent an integration that may not exist
- Recommend new software you do not need — fewer tools is usually the better move
- Let a model decide what is safe to automate. Every judgement here is a rule you can read
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The work itself
One recurring task. Not the whole job — the thing that comes round again and again.