How do I decide which parts of my week to hand to AI?

Everyone says AI saves hours, but nobody tells you which hours. The honest answer is that it depends on the task, and there is a quick way to find out: the Shlichus AI Audit, a two-minute tap-through audit on this site.

You pick the tasks that fill your week from a library built by shluchim (the weekly email, Yom Tov invitations, flyers, shiur prep, the Duch, receipts, routes, and so on), then answer four fast questions about each one. The questions name the task, so you are answering about the Duch, not about "your work": "Where do you start with the Duch?"

1. 01How often do you do this? Something weekly is worth setting up properly; something yearly usually is not.
2. 02When it is finished, how closely do you check it? What you read word by word is what you stay close to.
3. 03Where do you start with it? A system or a template means AI has something to learn from. A blank page every time means you are doing the same thinking twice.
4. 04How much of it has to be you, personally? A donor relationship is you. A spreadsheet is not.

Each task lands in one of three piles. Hand it off: AI carries most of it and you look it over. Do it together: AI prepares and drafts, you shape it and put your voice on it. You lead: your judgment, your relationship, your Torah, with AI still doing the research, the organizing, the draft you will rewrite and the follow-up. AI has a job in all three. Every task comes back with a short, practical way to start, plus a link to the guide, prompt, or app on this site that does that exact job.

One thing worth knowing before you start: setting any of this up properly takes longer the first few times. That is not a failure, it is the work. You are teaching an assistant how you do things, so give it your real materials and your past examples, correct what it gets wrong, and keep all of it. The payoff is not a faster first attempt. It is that the same job asks less of you every week after.

Two things make the audit more than a quiz. First, results are recorded anonymously, so the field learns what shluchim actually hand off, and the site shows the leaders. Second, any task you add that the library missed is read by a real person at the Lab, and the good ones join the picker for every shliach after you. You can also send your result card to another shliach as a challenge, straight through WhatsApp.

The scoring idea is adapted from a framework by Nathaniel Whittemore of The AI Daily Brief, reworked for shlichus.

Take the audit. It costs two minutes and a little honesty.