B*tchwork my AI Did for Me - Part 11: I Made My AI Cancel a Paid Promo Before It Could Charge Me
I did not set a reminder. I told my AI to wake up at 11PM on the right night, cancel the promo for me, and prove it was dead before it could charge me.
I promoted a job post on LinkedIn.
It was a fast call. I wanted more people to see the role, so I tapped the promote button and set it live.
Then I remembered the part I always forget.
Paid promos do not stop on their own. They keep charging you, day after day, until you go back in and shut them off. A free trial works the same way. The day the trial ends, the charge hits, whether you remembered or not.
I have lost money to this before. A free trial I meant to cancel. A tool I stopped using months ago and kept paying for. A promo that ran a few days too long. Small money each time. Real money over a year.
I did not want to set a phone reminder. I swipe those away without even reading them.
I did not want to put it on my calendar and hope I would be at my desk at the right minute.
So I handed the whole thing to my AI instead.
I told it to cancel the promo at 11PM on May 31, the night before the next charge would hit. And to check that it actually worked, not just tell me it did.
It set the whole thing up in 14 seconds.
This article is the exact setup, in plain words, so you can hand off the same job and stop paying for things you meant to cancel.
The problem was never the cancel button. It was remembering to press it. So I stopped trying to remember.
Who this is for
This is for you if:
You signed up for a free trial, swore you would cancel it, and got charged anyway.
You run paid ads or promos and forget to turn them off once they have done their job.
You have a subscription you have meant to cancel for months and still pay for.
You do not trust phone reminders because you swipe them away on reflex.
You want AI to handle the boring money stuff so you do not have to think about it.
If that is you, keep reading.
Why you should trust this
I run 33 brands. I ship two real SaaS products that people pay for every month, PRISM and AutoviralApp. My main account @liz.on.the.web has 241,000 followers.
I sign up for a lot of tools. I run a lot of paid promos. And I have been charged for plenty of things I meant to cancel and forgot. I am not above this. That is the whole reason I built it.
This is not a willpower fix. It is not a fancy budgeting app. It is me telling a computer to go press a button at a specific minute so I do not have to remember to.
I am not selling a tool. There is no paid tool here. I am giving you the prompts I actually used, in plain language.
What paid subs get below
The free version stops in a minute. Paid subs get all of this:
The exact words I typed to set this up. Copy them, change the date, done.
The one extra line that makes the AI check its own work, so you are not trusting it blind.
How to point this at a free trial so it cancels the day before the charge, not the day after.
The browser-control setup in plain language. What it is, how to keep it safe, what to never let it touch.
The 3 warnings I would not skip (wrong login, a moved button, trusting it blind).
How to use the same trick for ads, subscriptions, and renewals across any tool you pay for.
The bridge into next week's Bitchwork.
If you have ever paid for a month of something you forgot to cancel, this one pays for itself the first time you use it.
Paid subs get the full playbook below. Free subs get the headline and the framing.