I run 2.5 people's worth of work — and I'm done pretending that's fine


I run about 2.5–3.5 people's worth of work.

Not because I'm exceptional at productivity. Because the automations are good enough that I keep saying yes to things a normal human capacity wouldn't allow.

For the past couple of years, I've been the "automation guy" who makes everything look effortless. Client newsletters, social media pipelines, system builds, strategy calls. And I genuinely love it.

But behind all that efficiency is a human who still has to think, decide, and solve problems. And there are only so many hours of quality thinking in a day.

The uncomfortable truth: I've automated the easy stuff, but I'm still the bottleneck on everything that requires judgment.

Scheduling? Automated. First drafts? Assisted. Follow-ups? Triggered. But the actual thinking — what direction to take a client, what this newsletter should be about, whether a new idea is actually good — that still requires me, uninterrupted, at full capacity. And I haven't been protecting that.

So I've been changing how I work. Fewer clients. Higher rates. More focused scope. And this newsletter is part of that shift — a way to share these systems with more people, rather than doing all the implementation personally.

If you're reading this, you're probably in a similar place. You've got the tools. Maybe some automations running. But you're still stretched, still the person everything routes through, still the one who can't actually take a day off without something leaking.

That's not a productivity failure. That's what success looks like when you haven't yet removed yourself from the critical path.

That's what we'll be working on in this newsletter.

— Andrew

P.S. The Automation Wizard tool kit is where I've put the practical systems — the ones that actually removed me from the loop, not just made the loop faster.

Andrew Molloy

Automation Wizard/Soloneer - Exploring how we can use the latest technologies such as AI, automation tools like n8n, and 3D printing to make our lives easier and better.

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