22 ready-to-copy recipes that turn the tools you're already paying for into a team that works while you don't.
The first time I strung two of my tools together and let AI do the connecting, I got back an entire week's content plan before my coffee went cold. I didn't build anything new. I just pointed AI at what was already sitting in my Drive and my Kit account and asked it to do the boring part.
That's the whole idea behind this playbook. You already pay for Gmail, Google Calendar, Canva, and whatever else runs your business. A connector recipe is just a specific way of pointing AI at two or more of those tools at once so it can pull real information out of them and hand you back finished work instead of a blank page.
Below are 22 of them, organized by what they're actually for. Pick the ones that match tools you already have, copy the idea, and put it to work today.
Check off a recipe as you try it. Your progress is saved right in this browser.
Answer two quick questions and I'll point you to where to start.
What's eating the most time right now?
Point this at your running ideas doc in Drive and it pulls out what's usable, drafts this week's newsletter, and hands it back ready to paste straight into Kit.
Feed it one blog post or training doc already sitting in Drive and it comes back with three fresh email angles built from the same material, so nothing you've already written goes to waste.
Sorts the last 24 hours of your inbox into Urgent, Needs a Reply, and FYI, then drafts replies in your voice for anything that needs one.
Pulls the subject lines and open rates from your last five sends, tells you what's actually working, and suggests new angles worth testing next.
Takes a rough list of content ideas sitting in Drive and turns it into an actual scheduled calendar with real dates blocked on your Google Calendar.
Scans your week and tells you the best open block for batching content, so you stop hunting for time that technically doesn't exist yet.
Pulls today's meeting details and drafts a follow-up recap email to send to everyone who was in the room.
Pulls tomorrow's meetings along with the related email threads and puts it all into one prep doc, so you walk in already caught up.
Takes a call transcript and turns it into a drafted follow-up email with next steps already written, ready for you to read and send.
Pulls a product's testimonials straight from Airtable and generates a graphic that spotlights it, ready to drop into an email or a post.
Pulls the last 30 days of orders and flags what's actually selling and what's quietly stalling, so you know where to put your attention.
Drafts outreach to fill an open sponsorship slot, using your own past sponsor emails as the template so the tone matches what's already worked.
Scans the last 30 days for failed payments or refund patterns worth a second look, before they turn into a bigger problem.
Finds who owes you money and drafts the follow-up, so chasing invoices stops eating your afternoon.
Takes a rough bullet outline and turns it into a polished one-pager in minutes, no blank-canvas staring required.
Pulls a call transcript and generates a clean summary with action items already pulled out, so nothing said out loud gets lost.
Takes any testimonial you've collected and turns it into a branded, postable graphic in seconds.
Pulls the week's client or team updates into one shareable recap, so wins actually get seen instead of buried in a thread.
Pulls enrollment and completion data to flag who's stuck and worth a personal reach-out before they quietly disappear.
Pulls recent student questions into one themed summary, so you can see the pattern instead of answering the same thing five separate times.
Pulls everything overdue and everything due this week into one prioritized list, so Monday starts with a plan instead of a scroll.
Turns a project's task activity into a plain-English update, ready to send to a client or your team without you writing it from scratch.
Pick any two tools and see what a recipe between them could look like.
Inside the Empowered Business Society®, we go deeper with the recipes I actually run in my own business every week, live at the August Get It Done Week on connectors.
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