04 Your First 30 Days

Tom S
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From your first login to a Smith routine that is part of how you work, one simple step at a time, with something useful to show every week. Find the week you are in, do its numbered steps in order, and use the link on each step to jump to the full play or recipe. Step links open in a new tab, so this plan stays open as your home base.

FIRST 30 DAYS
Your First 30 Days with Smith

One step at a time, with something useful to show every week

 

The reassurance first: Smith is here to take the tedious parts off your plate, not to replace you. Everything you do in Week 1 makes Smith better at helping you specifically. By the end of Week 4 you will have one Smith routine you use every week, and you will know the time it saves you.

The Four-Week Arc

Each week has one goal and one win. Tap a week to jump to its steps.

Week 1: Get set up

Goal: by Friday, Smith has real context on who you are, and the tool feels like yours, not intimidating.

# Do this Result
1 Log in, take the quick in-app tour, and pick a model. The default is fine to start. You know where everything lives.
2 Build your Me file: in one chat, describe your role, your work, and your goals, then save the result to your workspace. Use the copy block below to start. Smith answers with your context from now on.
3 Build your My Voice persona: have Smith distill a style profile from a few of your own emails, then save it into a persona. Your first a-ha: a draft that sounds like you.
4 Start a chat called Routine Log and keep going back to that same chat to jot down recurring tasks as you notice them, all month (chat renaming is coming soon; for now keep the tab handy). The raw material for Week 3.
5 Run one quick win: paste a dense document and ask "explain this like I have 5 minutes." Proof, in 30 seconds, that this saves time today.
The "Me" file starter, ready to paste 
Here is everything about me and my job: my resume, my role, my org chart, my key relationships, my motivations, and my goals.

[PASTE OR TYPE IT ALL HERE, MESSY IS FINE]

Turn this into a structured "About Me" profile I can save as a document: who I am, what I do, who I work with, what I am responsible for, and what I am trying to achieve.
🌱By the end of Week 1

Your first draft that sounds like you

With your Me file and My Voice persona set up, watch Smith draft in your voice on the first try.

Week 2: Build daily habits

Goal: two to three everyday tasks now run through Smith by default. This is where it stops being a novelty and becomes a habit.

# Do this Result
1 Pick two daily tasks, for example reply drafting and meeting prep, and use them every day this week. You reach for Smith without a reminder.
2 Keep logging routines in your Routine Log: "I do this every Monday, the output is an email." A growing map of your repeatable work.
3 Tune your My Voice persona: when a draft misses, open the persona and edit its fields with the fix. Drafts need less editing each day.
4 Build the Concise and Devil's Advocate personas with the quickstart, then try both on real work. Long text becomes three bullets; a risky plan gets pressure-tested.
5 Run one paste-it-elsewhere recipe: a ticket, a Teams announcement, or a wiki page. Smith output that drops straight into a tool you already use.
🔁By the end of Week 2

A daily task on autopilot

Reply drafting now happens by reflex. Paste a thread, get a send-ready reply in your voice.

Week 3: Automate something real

Goal: take the highest-frequency task from your Routine Log and turn it into a saved, repeatable routine. This is the week the time savings become undeniable.

# Do this Result
1 Open your Routine Log and pick the task you do most often. Your automation target, chosen by data, not guesswork.
2 Run the recurring-task automation builder: the task assembled as the right persona, prompt, and folder. The task, built once and reusable.
3 Use the matching step-by-step recipe so the first result is genuinely good, for example the polished recurring report. A finished artifact, not a rough draft.
4 Export your Routine Log to a file and upload it to your Me folder. Smith can now answer "what do I do on Mondays?"
5 Try one real decision across two or three models at once and compare the answers. Independent perspectives on one call.

The headline reward of the whole month lands here: a task that took 30 minutes now takes 30 seconds. Capture the before-and-after time, it is the proof your setup is paying off.

⚡By the end of Week 3

A 30-minute task in 30 seconds

Your most frequent task is now a saved routine. One prompt rebuilds what used to take half an hour.

Week 4: Make it stick

Goal: you can name at least one play or recipe that is now part of your routine, and the time it saves. Hitting that is the whole point of the 30 days.

# Do this Result
1 Build a personal knowledge folder: your SOPs, past work, pricing, and FAQs, in one workspace folder. "What is our standard answer to X?" answered instantly.
2 Set up a personal FAQ assistant that answers only from your own files. An assistant tuned to your job's repeat questions.
3 Name your routine: the one play or recipe you will use every week, and roughly the time it saves. Your sticky win, captured.
4 Quick regroup with your manager or team: surface the next routine to automate.
Momentum into month two.

Graduation moment: write down what you set up, what you automated, and your sticky win. That short summary is visible proof of a month well spent, and the starting list for what to automate next.

📌By the end of Week 4

An assistant that answers from your files

Your personal knowledge folder is built, and your FAQ assistant answers only from your own trusted documents.

Learning Tracks

Prefer to follow a path by effort level instead of by week? Start here.

The Persona Builder Kit

The personas Week 1 and 2 ask you to build, with ready-made starters.

The Playbook

All the single-move plays the weekly steps draw from.

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