For one-person businesses

AI for solopreneurs: ten recurring jobs, one weekly routine

Most advice tells a solo founder to “use AI”. This page gives you a week: which job lives on which day, the prompt to start from, what you must still check, and a diary to measure whether it saves you anything at all.

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A ZeroTwo chat where the user asks for a very brief sample cold email template and the assistant replies with a short template containing name, company and value-proposition placeholders.
Tuesday's sales job starts like this: a short draft with placeholders you fill in and review.

A week for a team of one

Two jobs a day, grouped by theme so the context you load stays the same. Each card has a prompt skeleton to copy and the review step that stays with you.

Monday

Content

  • Blog draft

    Write a 1,200-word post on {topic} for {ICP}. My point of view is {angle}. Open with a hook that challenges the usual advice. Mark every statistic you are unsure of with [CHECK].

    You review: Every claim marked [CHECK], and whether it still sounds like you.

  • Social posts (10-pack)

    Turn this post into 10 LinkedIn posts. Vary the hook: question, story, how-to, contrarian take. Keep each under 200 words and reuse only facts from the post.

    You review: That no post adds a claim the source post does not make.

Tuesday

Sales

  • Sales email sequence

    Write a 4-email cold sequence for {ICP}. The main objection is {objection}. The ask is a 20-minute call. Give two subject-line options per email.

    You review: Anything that implies a relationship or result you cannot back up.

  • Design brief

    Draft a landing-page hero brief. Audience: {audience}. Desired feeling: {emotion}. Give 3 visual reference descriptions and 2 headline options.

    You review: Whether the brief matches your brand, not a generic one.

Wednesday

Product

  • Product spec to code scaffold

    Generate a route for {feature} with input validation, error handling and unit tests. Repo context: {stack_description}. List any assumption you made about the codebase.

    You review: Run the tests, read the diff, and check each stated assumption.

  • Meeting-note synthesis

    From this transcript list (1) decisions made, (2) owners and due dates, (3) open questions. Use only what is said. Transcript: {transcript}

    You review: Owners and dates against the recording or your own notes.

Thursday

Support and visuals

  • Customer support replies

    Reply to this ticket in my tone. Resolve it or escalate with a clear next step. Keep it under 120 words. Do not promise refunds or dates. Ticket: {ticket_text}

    You review: Refund, billing and legal replies: read them every time before sending.

  • Image and hero art

    Hero image for {page}: {subject}, soft natural light, editorial photography style, 16:9, no text in the image.

    You review: Faces, hands and any text rendered inside the image.

Friday

Finance

  • Bookkeeping summary

    Summarise this payments export for {month}. Flag any line more than 20% above the previous month. Tag each line by category and output a table. Show the arithmetic.

    You review: Totals against the source export, and every flagged line.

  • Investor or update email

    Draft a monthly update to my 5 advisors. Metrics: {metrics}. Biggest win: {win}. Biggest risk: {risk}. Tone: honest and measured. Use only the numbers I gave you.

    You review: Every number, and that the risk is stated as plainly as the win.

Choosing a model for each job: run the prompt on two and keep the one whose draft needs fewer edits. You can switch models in the same chat, so the comparison costs one extra message.

A one-week time diary, with the review time left in

This is how to find out whether the routine pays for you. The numbers below are assumptions for a hypothetical solo consultant, so overwrite every one.

Illustrative, not measured. Runs per week and minutes per run are invented for the example. Saved time = runs per week × (minutes before − minutes with AI, including editing and review). Credits are left blank because they depend on the model and the job: read yours from your usage page.
Illustrative one-week time diary: runs per week, minutes per run before and with AI, credits used, and weekly time saved for each of ten jobs.
JobRuns / weekBefore (min/run)With AI incl. review (min/run)Credits usedSaved / week
Blog draft115075log yours1h 15m
Social posts (10-pack)112060log yours1h 0m
Sales email sequence0.518090log yours45m
Design brief0.54025log yours8m
Product spec to code scaffold19060log yours30m
Meeting-note synthesis33012log yours54m
Customer support replies1063log yours30m
Image and hero art0.56040log yours10m
Bookkeeping summary0.259060log yours8m
Investor or update email0.256040log yours5m
Illustrative total under these assumptions5h 24m

Your total will differ, and a job where review takes as long as writing saves nothing. Drop that job from your routine.

A ZeroTwo chat showing a table of departments, categories and budget figures above a written month-end variance analysis that lists the formulas used.
Friday's bookkeeping job works the same way: attach your own export, ask for the arithmetic to be shown, then check the totals.

What to spend, and how to know it paid off

Skip the ROI percentage. Work out how many minutes a month the plan has to give back, then check that against your diary.

Free

$0/mo

Try one job on one real task before paying anything.

  • 100 free credits to start
  • +20 bonus credits every day you log in
  • 1 file upload per message
  • Limited memories

Plus

$14.99/mo

Enough room for a weekly routine: more credits, the Work agent and the code agent.

  • 1,650 monthly credits
  • +20 bonus credits every day you log in
  • Unlimited fast models in chat
  • Multiple file uploads per task
  • Access to Work and Code agents

Pro

$29.99/mo

$26.99/mo billed annually

Adds a larger credit allowance, Bots and unlimited projects for heavier weeks.

  • 3,500 monthly credits
  • +30 bonus credits every day you log in
  • Unlimited projects
  • Access to Bots
Minutes of recovered time per month needed to cover the monthly price of Plus and Pro at three example hourly rates.
Plan (monthly price)If an hour is worth $25If an hour is worth $50If an hour is worth $100
Plus ($14.99)36 min18 min9 min
Pro ($29.99)72 min36 min18 min

Break-even = monthly price ÷ hourly value × 60. The hourly values are examples, not a claim about what you earn. It only counts if the recovered time is real. To compare against a tool stack, add up what you pay today for separate writing, image and notes tools; that figure varies too much to quote.

Plans change; the pricing page is the source for current prices and allowances.

Copy the weekly checklist

Click the block to select it all, paste it into a note, and fill the blanks as you go.

Why a log beats a guess

Time saved is the number everyone quotes and almost nobody measures. Two weeks of your own entries will tell you which jobs belong in the routine and which are faster by hand.

WEEKLY AI ROUTINE (one-person business)

[ ] Mon  Blog draft + 10 social posts  -> check [CHECK] claims
[ ] Tue  Sales sequence + design brief -> check promises in emails
[ ] Wed  Code scaffold + meeting notes -> run tests, verify owners/dates
[ ] Thu  Support replies + hero art    -> read refund/billing replies
[ ] Fri  Bookkeeping summary + update  -> check totals against the export

After each job, log:
  minutes with AI (draft + edit + review): ____
  minutes it used to take:                 ____
  credits used (from your usage page):     ____
  would I ship it unedited? y / n

End of week: add the "saved" column. If review took as long as
writing, drop that job from the routine.

Questions solo founders ask

Which AI model is best for a solopreneur?

There is no single answer, and ZeroTwo does not publish a ranking. Run the same prompt from the routine on two models and keep the one whose draft needs fewer edits. Which models you can choose depends on your plan: Free has limited model selection.

Can one subscription replace hiring?

It can shrink the first-draft part of several jobs. It does not replace judgment, client relationships or accountability, and every job in this routine has a review step for that reason. Treat the time diary as a way to measure your own savings, not as a promise.

How do I stop everything sounding generic?

Give the model your audience, your angle and a constraint, as the prompt skeletons above do, and edit the result. A prompt that asks for a standard post gets a standard post.

Is it worth paying for?

It depends on how many hours you genuinely recover and what they are worth to you. The break-even table above shows the minutes per month needed to cover Plus at $14.99 or Pro at $29.99 at three example hourly rates. Start on the Free plan, which has no card requirement, and log one week first.

Can AI handle customer support?

It can draft and triage replies in your tone, which is where the support job in the routine spends its time. Read every reply that touches refunds, billing, legal or an upset customer before it goes out.

What is the biggest mistake?

Skipping the review step. A fast draft you do not check can cost more than the time it saved. The second is under-specified prompts: say who it is for and what to avoid.

What does ZeroTwo cost?

There is a Free plan (100 free credits to start, plus 20 bonus credits each day you log in, no card required). Plus is $14.99 per month and Pro is $29.99 per month ($26.99 per month billed annually).

Published by ZeroTwo, which sells the product this page uses. The prompts and the diary method stand on their own; the numbers in the diary are illustrative.

Run Monday's two jobs and log the minutes

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