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Our first AI scheduling agent got about 95% of requests right, and we threw it away. Why 95% isn't enough for an executive's calendar, how we rebuilt around one idea (AI understands, software executes, the EA decides), five lessons for anyone building AI agents, and five questions every EA should ask an AI vendor.
Why AI gives you a stiff, too-long email, and the five parts of a prompt that fix it: role, context, task, format and guardrails. With a before-and-after example and what to change when the answer is wrong.
The EA AI Academy is a free place for executive assistants to learn AI. Its first live workshop, The AI-Powered Executive Assistant, is Wednesday, January 20, 2027, 11am PT: 90 minutes, five live demos, using AI safely, and a free AI Toolkit.
An honest guide to AI scheduling tools for executive assistants: booking links, AI planners, built-in calendar assistants, agent builders and AI scheduling agents, which one fits which job, and six questions to ask in any trial.
The counter-offer is where a one-day meeting becomes a one-week meeting. A six-point checklist for executive assistants, and how ANCI turns the reply into one question for you.
One customer meeting took almost two weeks to schedule. Why scheduling is a coordination problem, what we learned building ANCI for executive assistants, and where AI agents go next.
The final calendar slot only shows the outcome. Five kinds of meeting that look simple until an executive assistant has to schedule one, and how to enter the Calendar Tetris Challenge.
What an executive assistant hears in a five-second request: a walkthrough of one sentence, the five problems inside it, and a carousel you can download and share.
ANCI 3.0 writes to your clients, books when they reply, works on your executive’s calendar, and never moves without your yes. Here is what is new and why we built it.
Finding buyers used to be a numbers game: buy a list, call everyone, hope. AI changes the question from "who is on the list" to "who is showing signs of buying right now." A plain-language guide for leaders to the four jobs AI does in lead generation, where companies get it wrong, and a five-step playbook.