I'm going to tell you something that sounds unhinged.
I gave an AI access to every meeting I've ever had, every email I've ever sent, and a Google Doc with my strategic priorities. Then I asked it: "Do you think I'm making progress on those priorities?"
It answered, with receipts and well-reasoned opinions.
No ego. No "well actually." No passive-aggressive Slack messages. Just full context, full memory, and a willingness to tell me I'm wasting time on stuff that doesn't matter.
If you're running a business, or just running yourself, this is the tool I think most people are sleeping on.
The tool is called Lindy. And after watching founder Flo Crivello demo it and seeing how operators are actually using it day to day, I'm convinced most people are spending 2-3 hours daily on work a bot should own.
Here's what a real day looks like.
8 AM: The brief that already awaits
Most people start their morning underwater in their inbox. With Lindy, you open a brief instead.
By 8 AM, Lindy has already scanned every overnight email, triaged by priority, and dropped pre-drafted responses into your drafts folder. Not generic templates. Contextual drafts. It knows the thread history, knows who you're talking to, knows the last ask.
What used to be 45 minutes of inbox archaeology becomes a 10-minute review.
Solopreneur, small business owner, or freelancer, your morning looks the same. You're not digging. You're deciding.
9 AM: The accountability keeping me brutally honest
Here's where it gets wild.
Connect Lindy to your Notion, task lists, or strategic docs. Every morning it reviews everything and tells you 3 things:
Are you working on the right stuff?
What did you say you'd follow up on that you haven't?
What are you spending time on that isn't in your top priorities?
"It's like having a chief of staff who actually read the strategy doc," one business owner told me. "Most humans nod along in the planning meeting and then go do whatever feels urgent. Lindy doesn't forget."
Mid-day: Delegation without lifting a finger
During a meeting, say "we need to loop in the design team on Instagram." Lindy picks that up, messages the right person on Slack, creates a shared doc, and drops the context in without you ever leaving the call.
Running a team of one? It still works. Lindy becomes the version of you that actually follows through on everything you said you would.
3 PM: The follow-up machine
Every afternoon, Lindy scans your calendar and email for commitments made by you or others and flags anything that hasn't moved.
Had a sales call Tuesday and said you'd send a proposal? By 3 PM Lindy has already drafted the follow-up with the doc attached and dropped it in your drafts.
It also flips it: "Hey, this person said they'd get back to you by Wednesday. It's Thursday. Want me to nudge them?"
Perfect memory and no awkwardness.
Why Lindy and not just Claude or ChatGPT?
You don't want to build an agent, tinkering with prompts for hours and it still doesn’t understand your goals. You want an agent that works.
Lindy plugs into Slack, email, calendar, and Notion and after it hears your priorities once starts delivering immediate value. No engineering. Built for people who want results, not a new hobby.
What it costs
$49/month. Chris is an operator who manages investor communications and runs ops for a 20-person investment firm. He quietly wired Lindy into every system he touches and started using it as his de facto chief of staff.
The day I described above is his. He estimated it saves 2-3 hours per day on email triage, follow-ups, and task reviews alone.
At any billing rate, that math is shocking.
What's Coming Next
Lindy is only going to get more powerful. Flo Crivello previewed on his podcast: phone calls, both inbound and outbound. You call your Lindy while driving to review priorities. It pushes back with opinions based on your meetings and emails.
The long-term vision is specialized AI roles beyond executive assistant. Social media manager, salesperson, front-end engineer. Each one a separate phone number on iMessage. Technology, am I right?!
Chris is already planning to roll Lindy out across his whole team. "If it works this well for me, imagine five of us running it. That's like adding a whole operations layer for less than one hire."
The Bottom Line
The fact that this exists in 2026 and most people have never heard of it is exactly why I’m writing this newsletter.
It doesn't matter if you're running a plumbing company, a consulting practice, a content business, or just trying to get your life together.
If you're still sorting your own inbox, chasing your own follow-ups, and keeping track of everything in your own head in 2026, you're burning your most expensive asset on work a $50/month bot does better. The margin is in the time you get back.
The next time you spend 45 minutes sorting your inbox or chasing a follow-up you already sent, you're going to remember this email.
Hit reply and tell me: How much would you pay to have 3 hours back in your pocket every day? I read everything.
Stay ahead of the curve,
MarginMaxxing