ChatGPT for boring corporate stuff

There is a lot of AI-related buzz, with all of it being large-scale, world-changing or apocalyptic.It's hard to come by some practical tips for boring 9-5 and our corporate day-to-day.

Well, here I go with examples where this word shuffling black box saved me a couple of hours here and there.

It usually boils down to some research, brainstorming, or organizing data. But still, maybe this would inspire you to look the AI way a bit more often and save some of that precious time.

Not that viral views-worthy topic, but to brighten it up, I asked ChatGPT to provide a joke for each use case. And it's still very bad at joking.

Side note: never feed AI any sensitive corporate data or information.

Sorting long lists into categories

Time saved: 1-2 hours

"First, let's discuss "bucketing." No, I don't mean ice bucket challenges. (That's so 2014.)"

I had a list of 40+ marketing platforms with which the product I am working on integrates. And I had to put all those into categories to implement sorting/filtering on the website and in-app.

Going through that manually would have taken me an hour or more.

ChatGPT came back with a decent categorization in like 30 seconds. Then there was some double-checking cause mistakes were made. Then I came up with my own categories and asked again to use the ready-made ones I had prepped.

But still, even with all the post-response work, it saved me up to 2 hours of work.

Sanity checks on projects' to-do lists

Up to an hour

"You're in a meeting, and your boss throws a curveball question that leaves you feeling like a deer in headlights. Enter GPT-4, swooping in with its vast knowledge to have everyone nodding in agreement."

Having a big product launch incoming, there are many bits and pieces to remember. Scoped out with all its small details, subtasks, and so on.

Usually, I would also surf product marketing communities and resources to remind myself what a good launch consists of. And to discover if anything slipped my mind during planning.

In your case that could be any big project with a lot of moving parts. With ChatGPT at hand all that checking after yourself boils down to a quick dialogue. And a few subtasks are usually added to the actual list afterward.

Brainstorming for words

Like 20 minutes to an hour

"GPT-4 will throw out suggestions so fast, you'll wonder if it's been secretly binge-watching Mad Men on your Netflix account." (good one!)

Getting stuck with some naming challenge is always so frustrating. Like say, you need to develop headlines for a structured one-pager or section names for a website's navigation bar.

And when every other section has a perfect two-word header, there is always that one bastard that will not fit. You can't come up with anything shorter than three or four-word ideas for it. We've all been there.

ChatGPT here amazes with its ability to get the question and provide multiple decent options. Especially great for non-native speakers and some tech-savvy copy.

Research in all its forms

Countless hours

"But hold on to your ergonomic office chairs, say goodbye to late-night research marathons, and hello to quick, accurate, and stress-free information gathering."

This is an obvious one. Last quarter I had to work on tons of specific content-types in spheres, some of which I don't know well. Specifically, marketing report templates in different fields, from social media to e-commerce.

And that being an enormous task in itself, if I had to additionally research how, for example, Shopify API works and which metrics are crucial to report on, that project would have taken me many more days to finish.

Having ChatGPT as your research buddy is terrific.

Encountering a new task outside of your field

1-2 hours

"Whether you're deciphering the cryptic language of tax codes or trying to make sense of a new project management tool, GPT-4 is like a digital life raft, guiding you through uncharted territory"

One thing I have had to do lately that I have never done before is to write a public relations type announcement. We all kinda know how they should look and feel, but when it comes to actually writing one, the fear of a blanc page kicks in hard.?

ChatGPT is really good at clearly explaining how something works, what kind of structure is usually in place, and what attributes are common for copy in a specific style.

It still sucks at writing the copy itself without knowing all the context I know (or maybe I am still bad at prompting).

But it does a great job of helping you understand it much quicker than the regular process of looking through examples and searching for inspiration and bits of knowledge.