Most AI advice falls into two useless camps: vague platitudes or six-figure implementations. This checklist gives you five concrete wins you can stand up this week — no IT staff required, no procurement cycle, under $30 a month.

What's inside

Five tested applications with setup steps, the right tools, and the order to do them in. Each one delivers measurable time savings within 14 days.

How to use it

  1. Walk through every item in order — skipping ahead usually means missing the prerequisite that makes a later item work.
  2. Score honestly. The point of a checklist is to surface gaps, not to feel good about what's already done.
  3. Run it again in 90 days. Checklists are a baseline; the value is in the delta between runs.