The Double-Dip Effect: Turn Routine Workflow into a Productivity Flywheel
Being AI-augmented isn’t about overhauling your workflow; it’s about leveraging a few simple tools that seamlessly integrate with your ordinary day-to-day. Think of it as a “double-dip”: if you’re already hosting a Zoom meeting, chatting on Slack, or managing a Google Calendar event, why not let that same activity fuel an AI-sidekick that takes things off your plate?
The primary requirement is to embrace the spirit of an “open arena” digital workspace that can capture key information, such as meeting transcripts.
Don’t worry, this does not mean that you need to record everything; tools like Zoom let you toggle meeting recording, so you can capture routine operational details and pause for more sensitive discussions.
With your “open arena” in place, the “how” becomes straightforward. Imagine, for example, a single meeting as the ignition key to an engine that powers your productivity system.
Here’s how the flywheel spins:
1. CAPTURE: Impruve starts by capturing your meeting transcript, and every relevant To-Do item, follow-up meeting topic, and follow-up communication discussed.
2. ORGANIZE: Impruve then organizes all of this information in a secure, continuously updated database for you. For example, To-Do’s go directly into your task list, where they can be cross-referenced with your personal goals and OKRs—what we call your “North Star.”
3. GUIDE: Upon capturing & organizing your To-Do’s, your AI-Sidekick provides contextual memos of “Progress and Pointers,” mapping out your actions against your goals, contextualizing the big picture traction you’ve made by completing your To-Do’s, and alerting you to potential Execution Leak (where strategic intent can fall through the cracks).
4. PREPARE: Impruve then goes to work helping you to prepare, by doing things such as populating your next meeting agenda with new topics derived from the last discussion, and providing “Calendar Assist” to help you focus during peak energy periods (for example, blocking focus time if you’re a morning person).
With just the simple input of a single meeting, your flywheel begins generating meaningful action steps, reducing the burden on you to manually track or revisit details.
Anticipatory Prompting: A Smart System That Lightens Your Load
This all boils down to our obsessive mentality of anticipating where AI can provide you value without extra work on your end. Again, think of everything Impruve does for you as a “double dip” on leveraging the stuff you’re already doing anyways.
As the flywheel keeps spinning effortlessly, you can elevate the system in a multitude of powerful ways, such as:
- Expanding Beyond Single Player: Adding team members magnifies the impact of Impruve’s “Progress & Pointers” by enabling auto-generated team-wide traction reports that provide a weekly contextual snapshot that connects the dots of each person’s contributions toward the collective North Star.
- Extending Beyond To-Dos and Calendar Assist: Impruve can also augment your leadership habits with proactive culture-building communications, like drafting affirmations, gratitude notes, and reminders for timely encouragement ahead of big events on your team’s calendar.
- Maximizing Your High-Cognition Work: By letting Impruve know your optimal focus times (e.g., Early Bird or Night Owl), your AI-sidekick can further refine Calendar Assist to help you tackle demanding tasks at peak productivity.
- [Coming Soon] Team Retrospectives: With the “Walk & Talk” retrospective flow, Impruve will conduct brief, voice-based conversations with each team member, synthesizing insights into a report that highlights shared and unique perspectives. It then guides you into a team meeting optimized with best practices in group retrospectives to define the forward North Star.
Pretty cool, right?!
So, why wait?
You’re already generating the inputs of this flywheel in your ordinary day-to-day anyway. Let Impruve put them to work for you right now.
