Weekly AI Agent Playbooks & Workflow Blueprints ($49/month)
Sometimes it is an agent. Sometimes an automation. Sometimes a workflow for the AI tool you already use.
Every build includes two things: the step-by-step with screenshots, and the blueprint you import and run.
An agency charges $500 for one. VIP members get four new builds a month, plus every past build, for $49.
The AI Workforce Alliance Team · Fri 8:00 AM
New Automation Playbook: The 2-Minute Inbox Triage Agent
74 unread emails. 3 that need you. Find them before your coffee cools.
Hey Ashley,
Every morning starts the same way. You scroll, you skim, and you hope you did not miss the one email that needed you.
Before: your inbox at 7:29 AM · Inbox (74)
This week's build does the first pass for you. It sorts what came in, drafts replies to the urgent ones, and sends you five lines on what needs you today.
You get two things in this playbook.
1. The step-by-step
Every click, with a screenshot. Follow along and you understand what you built.2. The blueprint
Import it and run. No building from scratch.Import
After: the same inbox at 7:31 AM · Inbox, sorted
Needs you today (3)
Can wait (9)
Noise, archived (62)
This week's featured build
Import it once and it keeps working for you.
Open this week's playbook
Best regards,
The AI Workforce Alliance Team
What you get, part 1
Every step, with a screenshot.
Step 1. Import the blueprint · Screenshot 1
inbox-triage-agent.jsonImported
Step 2. Connect your email · Screenshot 2
Step 3. Turn it on · Screenshot 3
Runs every weekday at 7:30 AMActive
What you get, part 2
The finished build. Import it and run.
Trigger: weekdays at 7:30 AM. Reads new email.
Needs you today, can wait, or noise.
Drafts replies for the urgent ones. Never sends.
Emails you what needs you today.
What it does for you
Tomorrow, 7:31 AM. Five lines instead of 74 emails.
Your morning summary · Example output
1. 3 emails need you today. Replies are drafted.
2. Finance needs your Q4 budget sign-off by 5 PM.
3. Your client sent contract redlines. The draft reply asks for a call on Thursday.
4. 9 emails can wait until this afternoon.
5. 62 were promotions and notifications. Nothing you need.
One import. It runs every weekday without you.
VIP Vault
Four new builds a month. Every past build.
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Free shows you how. VIP hands you the build.
Same build, every Friday. Read how it works for free, or get the finished automation and run it today.
Free: you get the article ($0)
Free edition: the article
How to set up an inbox triage agent for your team
Step 1. Connect your email.
Step 2. Write the sorting rules.
Step 3. Schedule the morning run.
The ROI: hours saved, cost, and payback, worked out for you.
You read it. You build it yourself.
- One article every Friday on how to set up that week's automation, step by step
- The ROI worked out for you: hours saved, cost, and payback
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VIP: you get the build ($49/month)
VIP: the one-click import
{ } inbox-triage-agent.json
The finished build, ready to run
Import this automation
Into the AI tool you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot
Arrives built. You switch it on.
- One click imports the finished automation into the AI tool you already use
- Four new builds a month, plus the full Vault of every past build
- The step-by-step with screenshots, so you can change it to fit your team
Cancel anytime with one click • Instant access to all past playbooks and templates in the Vault
VIP members only
You pick what we build next.
Every week, VIP members vote on the task they want automated. We build the winner, test it, and send it on Friday, ready to import. It is your own automation team, taking your requests.
Open the poll in your Friday playbook email. Click the build you want, or add a new one.
The top request gets built and tested that same week.
The finished build lands in your inbox with the step-by-step.
An agency charges $5,000 to $10,000 to build one automation to order. VIP members help choose four a month for $49.
The AI Workforce Alliance Team · Example poll
VIP vote: what should we build next?
This week's vote
Which build do you want next?
Click on your desired build, or add a new one to the poll.
+ Add your own build to the poll
Voting closes Tuesday. The winner ships Friday.
The math
One AI automation. Three ways to get it.
An agency charges $5,000 to $10,000 for one. VIP works out to $12.25.
Hire an AI ops agency
$5,000 to $10,000
Cost per AI automation
When it is up and running
Weeks to months
Do you need to learn to automate?
No
Build it yourself
$2,000+ of your own time
Cost per AI automation
When it is up and running
Months of learning, trialing, testing, and iterating
Do you need to learn to automate?
Yes
VIP $49 a month
$12.25
Cost per AI automation
When it is up and running
Every Friday. Arrives built. You switch it on.
Do you need to learn to automate?
No
After the invoice, what do you have?
| What you have | Agency | VIP |
|---|---|---|
| You can see how it was built | ✕ Rarely | ✓ Every build has the step-by-step |
| You can change it yourself | ✕ Change request, new invoice | ✓ Yes, it is yours to edit |
| You have a library of everything built | ✕ No | ✓ The full Vault |
| You can ask an expert | ✕ Billed by the hour | ✓ Reply to any email, or use the VIP AI Hotline |
| You control it if you leave | ✕ Depends on the contract | ✓ Keep every playbook you received, for life |
You still never have to learn to automate. You just stop renting the knowledge.
Agency cost is a typical range for one custom automation project. Build it yourself assumes 40 hours at $50 an hour. VIP is $49 a month divided by four new builds.
Built by someone who put AI into enterprise workflows before ChatGPT existed.
Ashley Gross is the founder of The Alliance and the author of The AI Workweek, published by Wiley. She has put AI into enterprise workflows since 2020, for teams at Microsoft, Visa, Abbott, HP, Unilever, and Snowflake. Each Friday build uses the methods she brings to those teams.