A quick readiness check before you hand a task to an agent.
More power isn’t always the answer. Run the check first.
01The task
02Is it repetitive / rule-based?
Yes ▢ No ▢
03Is it low-stakes and reversible on the first pass?
Yes ▢ No ▢
04Do I have a clear “done looks like”?
Yes ▢ No ▢
05Can I review before anything leaves?
Yes ▢ No ▢
06Verdict
Mostly yes → go. Any no on the last two → not yet.
✦ Or build it with AI
Paste this to any AI — Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini — to make your own. This is the kind of thing agentic AI can do.
Be my thinking partner and help me make my Should I Go Agentic?. Ask me one question at a time for each part below — keep my exact words, stay warm and plain — then assemble my answers into one clean document I can keep and paste into my AI: • The task • Is it repetitive / rule-based? • Is it low-stakes and reversible on the first pass? • Do I have a clear “done looks like”? • Can I review before anything leaves? • Verdict When we’re done, give it to me ready for Notion, Google Docs, a spreadsheet, or Word.