AI agents for business work you repeat every week
If you do the same judgment task every week, such as reading a list, spotting what matters and writing it up, you can make it a Claude routine. These are examples of what the ten templates are built to do, by team. Each routine starts report-only and asks before it acts. Free (MIT). Needs a paid Claude plan.
Examples built from real templates
Every example below is one of the templates in the catalog, described in the words of the team that would use it. They are for example only. There are no customers, results or numbers on this page, because none are claimed.
Maturity comes from the catalog. Jobs watch and the generic watch template are piloted, which means a real run checked them. The other eight are unpiloted, which means no real run has checked them yet. Run each one report-only first.
Six teams, ten templates
Pick the team closest to yours. Each card says what the template does, taken from the catalog.
Sales
Track public job postings for commerce and automation roles. Before each outside meeting, get a short, cited brief of the other company.
Support
Label new mail threads, draft replies in your style, and send a reply only after a person approves it. A weekly digest groups repeated questions your help pages do not answer yet.
Finance
Read incoming invoices and flag duplicates, large amounts and new vendors for a person to check. It never pays.
Recruiting
Score new applicants against your rubric with evidence per criterion and suggest a shortlist. It never rejects anyone.
Marketing
Draft cited posts from your topics and sources in your house style, and publish only what a person approves. A weekly report compares metrics with the week before.
Engineering
A daily digest of open pull requests, issues and failing builds, with the stale ones flagged.
What every one of these routines does
Report first
- The first run is report-only. You read what it found before it does anything else.
- Results go to a Desk. That is one page where you see what the routine found and decide what to keep or drop.
- Nothing is hidden. Records that your settings cut are kept and marked dropped with a reason.
Ask before it acts
- The prompt forbids sending, posting or deleting in the report-only templates.
- The templates that send or publish put it behind an approval gate. The Desk's approve-then-send flow is not yet piloted end to end. Email and Slack transports are verified.
- Schedules are UTC, at most once an hour.
Do you already run this task in another tool? Migrate an n8n, Windmill or Zapier workflow instead of starting from nothing. Not sure these limits suit you? Read the honest limits.
Pick the one you do every week
Install RoutineOS, start from the template closest to your task, and read the first report.