The Wiley playbook for letting AI handle the busywork, without babysitting it. No code. Works with Copilot, Gemini or ChatGPT.
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Works with the tools you already use. Microsoft 365 and Copilot, Google Workspace and Gemini, and ChatGPT.
WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS
AI should give you hours back.
Most people use AI one prompt at a time, then spend hours cleaning up the output. This book shows you how to set AI up so the work actually leaves your plate.
Start with the work that looks the same every week. Sorting email, writing status updates, pulling notes out of meetings. These tasks follow a pattern, so AI can do them well. They are also low risk, because you check the result before anyone else sees it.
Workslop is AI output that looks finished but isn’t. It happens when AI is asked to do a job without your priorities, your standards, or a clear picture of what “done” means. The book gives AI that context once, so you stop re-explaining your job every morning.
Inside the box, AI prepares. It drafts, sorts and summarizes, and nothing it does there is final. Outside the box, you commit. You send, approve and decide. AI works freely inside the box and stops at its edge. That one rule makes AI safe enough to use every day.
AI prepares
Draft and summarize
Sort
You decide
Send
Approve and decide
At the boundary, you check the work.
AI fatigue comes from the checking, re-prompting and cleanup that pile up around it.
| Prompt by prompt old way | The AI Workweek way | |
|---|---|---|
| Context | Re-explaining your job to a chatbot every morning | Your priorities set once, so AI sorts by what matters |
| Quality | Workslop. Drafts that look done but aren't | AI works inside the box, and nothing goes out until you approve it |
| Tools | Too many AI tools, too much noise | The tools you already have. Copilot, Gemini or ChatGPT |
| Results | "The agent did one step. I still do 90%." | 100+ workflows that take whole chunks of busywork off your week |
WHAT YOU’LL BE ABLE TO DO
Every workflow in the book uses tools your company may already pay for. No code, no new software, and no AI expertise needed.
Tell Copilot your three real priorities, then ask it to sort your inbox by them. You see which emails move your work forward and which are just loud.
The same approach works in Gmail. Gemini suggests labels based on your priorities and summarizes long threads, so you can decide in seconds what needs you.
Get the decisions, owners and next steps from every meeting without taking notes. You review the summary, and you send the follow-up.
AI pulls together what happened this week from your email, calendar and notes into a first draft. You add the judgment and send it.
Ashley Gross is the founder and CEO of The Alliance, a Forbes-recognized AI consultant and a Wiley-published author. She has trained more than 2,500 professionals at Fortune 500 companies and has been implementing AI at work since 2020. She wrote The AI Workweek after using AI to cut her own week from 80 hours to 15.
AI is best at the preparation work around your job. Sorting email, summarizing long threads and meetings, drafting first versions of reports, and organizing information. The AI Workweek shows you how to hand that prep to AI while you keep the sending, approving and deciding.
No. Every workflow in the book uses tools you already have, such as Copilot in Microsoft 365, Gemini in Google Workspace, or ChatGPT. You write plain-language instructions, and that’s it.
AI is changing what jobs involve, mostly by taking over repetitive tasks. The safest position is to be the person who knows how to use it well, and who keeps the judgment calls. This book is built around that. AI does the prep, you make the decisions.
It depends on how much of your week goes to email, meetings and documents in Microsoft 365. If that’s most of it, and you set Copilot up with clear priorities, it can save hours a week. See the full Copilot vs Gemini comparison for prices and use cases.
Ashley runs workshops and keynotes that help teams cut busywork with AI, safely, using the tools they already have.
100+ workflows. One simple rule. A shorter week.