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A free guide by Mariah Brunner ↗ INSTAGRAM ↗ TIKTOK

What Should You
Hand Off To Claude?

Your AI risk score tells you where your role is exposed. This guide tells you exactly what to do about it, including a prompt that maps your whole role and builds your handoff plan.

The Washington Post’s interactive on the jobs most affected by AI uses research from GovAI and the Brookings Institution to show how exposed each job is, and how well its workers are placed to adapt.

A high score doesn’t mean you’re getting fired. It means a big part of your current job can be done by a machine. Most people see that and panic. The people who get ahead read it as a task list.

Your goal is to hand off the repeatable parts as fast as possible, so you can pour your time into the parts that make you hard to replace.

Two Questions For Every Task

01

Pattern or judgment?

Pattern tasks follow rules, templates or repeatable steps, like the same weekly email, a summary or a formatted report. Judgment tasks mean reading context and making calls with incomplete information. Pattern means hand it off. Judgment means protect it.

02

Would a mistake hurt a relationship or a decision?

A first draft you’ll edit is low stakes. A message to a difficult client or a strategic call is high stakes. Low stakes, Claude drafts and you review. High stakes, you stay in the loop.

Hand Off, Co-Pilot, Keep

01

Hand off

Routine communication. Follow-ups, status updates, meeting recaps. Claude drafts in your voice, you adjust and send. Two minutes instead of fifteen.

Research and summaries. Competitor research, long documents, news monitoring. Claude pulls out what matters, you ask follow-ups and make the call.

First drafts. Proposals, reports, SOPs, job descriptions. Claude builds the structure from your brief, and you refine instead of starting from a blank page.

02

Co-pilot

Strategic planning. Roadmaps, business cases, go-to-market plans. You bring the context and judgment, and Claude organizes your thinking and points out the gaps.

Difficult conversations. Feedback, conflict, sensitive client situations. Claude drafts talking points and predicts the pushback. You have the actual conversation, far better prepared.

03

Keep

People decisions. Who to hire, who to trust, how to handle a key client. Claude can offer a framework, but your read on people is the value.

High-stakes calls. Ethical decisions, crisis response, final sign-offs. Claude can help you think through what could happen. Your name is on it, so it’s your call.

Build Your Handoff Plan

Paste this into Claude or ChatGPT and fill in the brackets. The more specific you are about your real day, the better the plan.

Task Audit And Handoff Plan
You are an AI workflow strategist. Help me build a complete task audit and handoff plan for my role, so I know exactly what to give to AI, what to do with AI as a co-pilot, and what to keep fully human. My role: [your job title] What I actually do day to day: [3 to 5 specific sentences about your real work, not your job description] My industry and company type: [e.g. marketing agency, corporate finance, small business owner, healthcare admin] The AI tools I can use at work: [e.g. Claude Pro, ChatGPT, Copilot, none yet] Optional: paste my calendar for a typical week or my last 20 sent emails' subject lines so you can see where my time really goes. Step 1. Map my work List every category of work my role involves, including the hidden stuff like email, prep, coordination, documentation, meetings and reactive work. Estimate the share of my week each one takes (high, medium or low). Step 2. Score each category Rate each one on two scales and show a table: - Pattern vs. judgment (1 = follows rules or templates, 5 = needs judgment calls with incomplete information) - Stakes if wrong (1 = easy to fix, 5 = damages a relationship, a decision or my reputation) Step 3. Sort into three tiers - TIER 1, hand off now: low judgment and low stakes. For each, give me the exact prompt or workflow to use, and how long my review should take. - TIER 2, co-pilot: higher judgment, but AI helps with prep, structure or drafts. Say exactly what AI does and where I stay in control. - TIER 3, keep human: needs my experience, relationships or accountability. Say what small edges AI can still help with. Step 4. My 30-day starting point - The single highest-leverage task to hand off this week, and why - The one skill to build in the next 30 days to get more out of AI - Which of my "moats" (deep expertise, relationships, judgment, taste, managing people, reading the room) to invest my freed-up time in, with one concrete action Rules: Be specific to my role, not generic. If my description is too vague to score something, ask me before guessing. Never suggest handing off anything that involves confidential data my company hasn't approved for AI tools.
Where To Put The Time You Get Back

Handing off the repeatable work gives you hours back. These are the six moats worth investing them in.

  1. Deep expertise. AI can look things up. It can’t replace what you know from doing the work for ten years.
  2. Relationships and trust. Who calls you when something breaks, and who vouches for you. These compound.
  3. Judgment under ambiguity. Making good calls when the information is incomplete and the stakes are real.
  4. Taste and creative direction. Claude can generate. You decide what’s good and what’s worth keeping.
  5. Managing and developing people. Feedback that lands, and a team that trusts each other.
  6. Reading the room. AI works with what it’s given. You know what’s really going on behind a decision.

Want help setting Claude up to handle the handoff work? Start with how I set up Claude in 5 steps.