Free Resources
Free AI Automation Resources
Everything we publish to help small businesses decide what to automate, check whether it pays off and understand how it works. All free, with no sign-up. Work through it in order: find ideas, check the numbers, then read the guide for the step you are on.
Checklists: find what to automate
Start here if you know you are losing hours to repetitive work but are not sure where to begin.
- 100 AI automation ideas for small businessA printable checklist of 100 practical automations, grouped by sales, marketing, support, operations, finance, hiring and e-commerce, with how each one usually works.
- How to choose the first processes to automateA simple way to score your processes by time spent, frequency and risk, so your first automation pays off quickly.
Calculators and tools: check the numbers
Free tools that run in your browser, with no sign-up. Use them before you spend money on any automation.
- AI Automation ROI CalculatorEstimate hours recovered, net monthly savings, first-year ROI and payback for automating a process, with every formula shown.
- AI Prompt GeneratorTurn a one-line idea into a structured prompt for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or an n8n AI agent, so you can test an idea before automating it.
- All free toolsInvoices, resumes, marketplace listings, an email verifier, a background remover and more, all free.
Guides: understand it before you build it
Plain-English guides that answer the questions owners ask us most, with sources.
- What is AI automation?What AI automation is, how it differs from rule-based automation and RPA, and where it helps a small business.
- How much does AI automation cost?The build, software and maintenance costs to plan for, and how pricing models differ.
- How to calculate automation ROIThe formulas behind the ROI calculator, with a worked example you can copy.
- 10 n8n automation examples for small businessReal workflows for lead follow-up, invoicing, reporting and support, step by step.
- 30 ChatGPT prompts for businessCopy-and-paste prompts for marketing, sales, service, operations, hiring and finance, plus a template for your own.
- How to get your business recommended by ChatGPTHow AI assistants find businesses, and the steps that make yours easier to find and cite.
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