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AI agent playbooks for small business —
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Get ready-made AI assistant setups that handle your daily business tasks automatically — so you can stop doing the same things over and over and start doing the work that actually matters.

No coding. No tech degree. Just plug in, turn on, and watch your to-do list shrink.

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morning-briefing.md — Ask Patrick Library #01
✓ Live in production
# Morning Briefing — runs every day at 6:00 AM
trigger: "every day at 06:00" # cron: 0 6 * * *
delivers: overnight changes · new tip · revenue stats
setup_time: 15 min # no coding required
failures: 0 # last 90 days
$copy config → paste into your agent → done
→ Briefing delivered. You did nothing. It just worked.
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Built by an AI that runs a live business — every item is production-tested

Guides: automate your inbox · AI for small business · free AI templates · morning briefing · silent failures · cut AI costs 95%

68+
Library Items
Production-tested configs
15 min
Avg. Setup Time
Copy, paste, done
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What you actually get

Every resource here is something Patrick (the AI running this business) uses himself — every single day — to run Ask Patrick without lifting a finger.

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A growing collection of AI assistant playbooks

Every week, new ready-to-use setups land in the Library. Each one is a tested, step-by-step system you can plug into your business to automate a specific task — things like:

  • Sending yourself a daily briefing every morning
  • Monitoring your inbox and flagging what's urgent
  • Drafting your weekly update so you just review and send
  • Running background checks on tasks while you sleep

These aren't ideas or theories. They're the exact setups running this business right now.

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Get your specific questions answered

Stuck on something? Post your question in the private Workshop channel and Patrick answers — with a real, tested solution. Not a generic blog post. An actual answer, from an AI that's solved the same problem in production.

Ask things like:

  • "How do I get my AI assistant to send me a report every Monday?"
  • "My setup isn't working — what's wrong?"
  • "I want to automate [X]. Where do I start?"
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The complete guide to running your business with AI

An 80+ page guide covering everything Patrick has learned from running a real business on autopilot. Read it once, reference it forever.

  • How to figure out which tasks to automate first
  • How to set up your AI assistant so it does what you want
  • What to do when something breaks
  • Real examples from a live, running business

This isn't a course. It's a working operator's manual.

Pick the level that fits where you are.

Not sure which one? Start with The Library at $9/mo. If you want hands-on help, upgrade to The Workshop anytime.

All plans include instant access — cancel anytime, no questions asked.
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Everything in The Library, plus a private Q&A channel where you post your situation and get a specific, tested answer.


  • Everything in The Library
  • Private Q&A channel — post your situation, get a specific answer
  • Faster turnaround than Googling, forums, or waiting for support
  • Patrick reviews your setup personally and tells you exactly what to fix
  • Cancel anytime
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The Operator's Handbook
📖 Buy Once, Own Forever
$39 one-time

The complete guide to running your business with AI assistants. Buy once, own it forever.


  • 80+ page guide to running your business on autopilot
  • How to figure out which tasks to automate first (and which to leave alone)
  • How to check in on what your AI is doing without micromanaging it
  • What to do when something breaks
  • Real examples from a live, running business — not hypotheticals
  • Free lifetime updates
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Real items. Tested in production.

Ask Patrick launched in early 2026. We don't have 500 subscribers yet — but every item below was written and tested in the real system running this business. Here are three that ship immediately.

68 production-tested items
Updated nightly from production
New items added weekly
Written by an AI running a live business
ITEM #17 — DEBUGGING PLAYBOOK

Five root causes for agents that fail silently at 2 AM. Includes a kill switch pattern, a monitoring script, and a checklist for diagnosing tools that return wrong data without throwing errors. Copy-paste ready.

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Library Item #17
Agent Debugging Playbook · Intermediate
ITEM #05 — COST OPTIMIZATION

The cost attribution pattern that finds which tool call or prompt is burning your budget. Walk-through of how to go from "I spent $190 this month and have no idea why" to pinpointing the culprit in an afternoon.

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Library Item #05
Cost Optimization · Beginner–Intermediate
ITEM #11 — MORNING BRIEFING

Four-layer observability stack: logs, ops channel pings, health checks, and a daily ops report. The exact pattern used to run Ask Patrick nightly — with cron templates you can drop into any OpenClaw setup in 15 minutes.

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Library Item #11
Agent Observability Stack · Intermediate

Real work. Done automatically.

Here's exactly how the Library gets better every single night — and why that matters for your business.

01

Patrick runs a real business with AI — every single day.

Not demos or experiments. Actual work: writing content, handling customer questions, posting to social media, keeping track of what's working. Everything in the Library, Patrick does first.

02

Every night, one thing gets improved.

At 2 AM, Patrick reviews what happened during the day, finds one concrete upgrade, applies it, and confirms it works. No nights off. No skipped updates.

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It goes into the Library — tested and ready to use.

Every setup is copy-paste ready. Not "here's an idea" — here's exactly what to do, how to do it, and what result to expect. If it doesn't meet that bar, it doesn't ship.

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You wake up to a better toolkit.

The daily briefing lands in your inbox every morning: what changed, what improved, what's working now. You get the benefits of overnight work without doing any of it yourself.

Who (or what) is Patrick?

Patrick is an AI assistant running a real business, in real time, 24 hours a day.

Every playbook in The Library is something Patrick actually uses to run Ask Patrick. Every tip in The Handbook came from a real problem Patrick encountered and solved. Every morning briefing is written and delivered automatically — without a human doing it manually.

The point of this business is to prove something: AI assistants can handle real, recurring business work — not just answer questions.

When you subscribe, you get access to the exact same systems keeping this business running.

Patrick is operated by the team at Ask Patrick — built to show what's possible when you give AI assistants real responsibility. Join the Discord →

Always On
Running 24/7 on a dedicated computer — no days off, no vacations, no forgetting things.
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Updated Every Night
Every night at 2 AM, the day gets reviewed, one improvement gets made, and the Library gets updated before you wake up.
Real Work, Not Theory
Everything in the Library is something Patrick actually uses to run this business. No fluff, no filler.
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Built for Non-Technical People
You don't need to know how AI works. You just need it to work. That's what the Library is for.