This is one of those posts where I am not the main character.
I did not come up with this. A cofounder named Teresha Aird did. She runs marketing at Offices.net. Business Insider wrote about her in May 2023 as part of a roundup of people using paid ChatGPT to work better and earn more.
What she did was not flashy. But it was smart in the way that saves real time.
She paid $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus. Then she used it like a 24/7 assistant she could reach from anywhere. When she was away from her desk and a client had a question, she did not have to rush back or make them wait. She typed the question into ChatGPT, got a fast answer, and kept moving.
She also used it for quick research. Things that used to eat 20 minutes of her day. Gone.
That is the whole thing. Nothing complicated. Just a tool used consistently for the low-stakes stuff that eats your time.
What answering questions the old way costs you
You know how this goes.
You are out. A client emails. The question is not a big deal, but you do not know the answer off the top of your head. So you either:
Make them wait until you are back at your computer.
Scramble to find the answer on your phone, which is slow and annoying.
Cut your time short and head back to your desk early.
None of those feel good. They all cost you time or make you look less on top of things than you are.
Quick research is the same story. You need a fast stat, a definition, a comparison. You open 10 tabs. You skim 4 articles. Twenty minutes later you have the thing you needed in 2 minutes.
A $20 AI assistant cuts that down. Not for everything. But for the small, low-stakes stuff? It is a different game.
What you get in this one
I pulled out how Teresha used this and turned it into a repeatable method for you. By the end of this post you will have:
The kinds of questions that are a good fit for AI (and the ones that are not).
The copy-paste prompt style for client questions.
A quick research prompt you can use the same way.
The one rule that keeps this safe.
You do not need to be a tech person. You just need a paid ChatGPT account and a question.
Quick and honest note before we start
This works for low-stakes questions. Things that do not carry legal, financial, or medical weight. Teresha used it for general client questions and quick research, not for final answers on anything serious. That line matters. AI can give you a wrong answer with total confidence. Always read what it gives you before you send it to anyone. This is a speed tool, not a replacement for your judgment.
Behind the paywall, you get the full how-to:
The 4 types of questions this works best for.
The copy-paste prompt framework for client questions.
The research prompt that replaces 10 tabs.
The one safety check you must do before you hit send.
A steal-this cheat sheet for using AI as your pocket assistant.
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