It is Monday morning, and my groceries just showed up at my house in Utah.
So did the smile on my face. Because I just got rid of a repetitive task I hate doing, I now have time in my life to do much higher-value things.
I didn’t go to the store. I never built a cart. I never sat on an app searching for chicken breast.
Claude did all of it. OH YEAH!
Here is what happened. I was traveling to Utah yesterday. I am focused on high-protein, high-fiber meals right now, and that only works when the right food is actually in the fridge when I show up to Utah. Normally that means me, a grocery list, and thirty minutes I do not have. So I asked Claude to handle it. And here is the first thing that surprised me.
Claude has access to my calendar. So before it planned a single meal, it checked my week. It saw which days I have lunches and dinners with friends and colleagues. It knew exactly which meals I would actually be eating at home. It did not plan seven dinners for a week where I am only home for four.
Then it built the menus. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the meals I am home. All built around my protein and fiber goals.
Then came the part I dreaded. Taking that menu and sitting on Instacart, searching item by item, building the cart manually. I did not want to do it.
So Claude did it for me. It generated the shopping list from the menus and loaded every item into my Instacart cart.
Then it did the thing that made me stop and say aha!
It noticed my default delivery address was set to Chicago. I was headed to Midway, Utah. It did not guess. It did not just ship my chicken and eggs to an empty house in Illinois. It asked me which Utah address to use; I’ve had deliveries to multiple addresses in Utah.
Think about that for a second. It caught a detail I might have missed myself. I have absolutely placed an order to the wrong address before or for the wrong time, AM vs PM. Most of us have. The AI checked the context, saw the mismatch, and asked the right question.
Was it perfect? No. I made a couple of tiny swaps when I logged in. A different brand here, one quantity change there. Two minutes of review.
But the work was done. The menus were built. The cart was full. The address was right. All I did was log in, fine-tune, and hit order.
And this morning, the doorbell rang.
Then I took it one step further
What about the meals I am NOT eating at home?
I built a skill for Claude. For every restaurant on my calendar this week, it pulls the menu and picks the highest-protein, highest-fiber options before I walk in the door.
Zero brain power needed. I sit down already knowing what I am ordering. No scanning the menu while making small talk. No talking myself into the fries. No having to remember to bring my readers to see the size 5 font on the menu.
If you read my Cognitive Load series, you know why this matters. Picking my meals used to burn a slot in my head all week. Now that slot is free for something that actually deserves it.
So my whole week of eating is handled. Home meals planned, shopped, and delivered. Restaurant meals picked in advance. I made zero food decisions and every single one is on plan.
Why this matters more than groceries
If you have followed me for a while, you know the Slowinski Pyramid. The bottom tier is where every organization and every person should start: get rid of the repetitive tasks you hate doing.
Grocery shopping is the definition of a bottom tier task. It is the same job every single week. It has clear inputs and clear outputs. It requires zero strategic thinking from me. And yet for years I did it manually, or I let it slide, or I ate whatever was around because the shopping did not happen.
That last one is the killer. Eating well does not fail at the table. It fails at the store. Or more precisely, it fails when you never make it to the store.
Now the errand runs itself. Here is my new weekly loop:
Claude checks my calendar. It plans menus for the meals I am home. It generates the shopping list. It loads the cart in Instacart. It picks my restaurant orders for the meals I am out. I review for two minutes and hit order. Food shows up at my door.
That is it. A weekly task. Set once. Runs on repeat.
The part nobody talks about
Everyone talks about AI writing emails and summarizing meetings. Fine. Useful. But the real shift is when AI starts completing errands, not just documents.
A document still needs you to do something with it. A completed errand needs nothing. The food shows up. The task is gone from your list and gone from your head.
And notice what made this work. Claude did not just follow instructions. It used my calendar to know my week. It used my address to catch a mistake. It used my goals to pick my meals. The tool checked my context at every step. That is the difference between a tool that executes and one that thinks about what it executes. It has my context! It knows I avoid onions, garlic, gluten, and celery.
What this looks like at work
Swap groceries for anything on your team's plate that runs weekly with clear inputs and outputs. Status reports. Data pulls. Renewal reminders. Order confirmations. Vendor follow-ups.
Every one of those is a grocery run. Same structure every week. Zero strategy required. Pure friction.
At Trilogy, we started removing those tasks years ago. That is how 20 people run $100M. Not because we work harder. Because the repetitive layer of the company runs itself and the humans do the thinking.
Your personal life works the same way. My eating got more consistent the moment I stopped being the bottleneck in my own grocery pipeline.
So here is my question
What is the difference between my grocery shopping and the repetitive tasks still running loose in your business?
Nothing. That is the answer. There is no difference.
Same job every week. Clear inputs. Clear outputs. Zero strategy. The only difference is I got rid of mine, and yours are still on somebody's to-do list.
My doorbell rang this morning, and poof, there was my food for the week.
Kathy
THE AI BOSS