How AI Reduced My Work Week to One Day

This post was inspired by Kyle’s question during Friday’s Beer With Kyle about how we’re actually using AI in our businesses. I thought I would share how AI has changed my life.

If I could describe 2025 in one sentence, it was a foundational year. A year of stripping everything back, rebuilding, testing and future-proofing systems.

I spent over twelve months restructuring my business model, website ecosystem, and infrastructure to align with where search, AI, and digital marketing are heading, not where they used to be.

The Unexpected Outcome

• Less pressure — I stopped chasing rankings and trusted systems instead. Now I rank consistently on the first page
• Less stress — I shifted toward evergreen frameworks that support AI and Search Engines
• More creative thinking time - for me the most important part of any business
• More customer focus - created new AI tools that customers are able to use themselves for better results
• More time with my rescue dogs, oh and I better not forget hubby.

Where AI Changed Everything

I’ve been working with ChatGPT for nearly four years. Since it launched in November 2022. Not just using it but training it around my business, refining prompts, testing structures, rebuilding content systems.

In return, AI helped me:

• Understand what search engines and AI search are prioritising
• Redesign my website ecosystem for long-term authority
• Strengthen E-E-A-T through structure and internal systems
• Analyse performance and refine strategies
• Build branded visibility and assets

The result?

I moved from working five days a week (sometimes seven during system rebuilds) to effectively working one focused day per week.

What That Looks Like Now

My business model is built around analysing economic and business news, identifying opportunities and trends, and expanding that into multi-platform content.

The challenge - search engines don’t like a lot of news-based content they prefer evergreen content.

So I separated the content to different sites.

• Time-sensitive analysis lives in a dedicated commentary space
• Evergreen authority content lives on my main sites

This stopped ranking drag and strengthened overall ecosystem authority.

My Weekly Workflow (With AI)

Each week I:

1. Read news and identify opportunity themes
2. Draft a commentary piece
3. Expand into long-form website content
4. Adapt versions for LinkedIn and Medium
5. Create and schedule Pinterest pins
6. Build segmented newsletters from different angles
7. Schedule social posts two weeks ahead

With AI assisting drafting, restructuring, editing, image prompts, repurposing, and analytics review with the content creation side now takes around 2-3 hours.

The rest of my workday is reserved for:

• Admin
• Video
• Podcasting
• Coaching
• Strategy thinking

A full week’s content done in one focused session. Two days if I feel lazy.

The Real Shift

AI didn’t replace me. It streamlined my systems providing clarity and resources so I could focus on interpretation, strategy, and creative direction.

That’s the difference.

Instead of working inside the business five days a week, I now work on the system that keeps it running.

And I spend a lot more time with my dogs and hubby at the beach