4 Jobs to Give an AI Agent (and the 1 Rule to Keep It Safe)

AI Automation
Written by Dan Thompson

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What should you actually do with an AI agent?

Give it a job, not your business. The best first jobs for an AI agent are tasks you do every week, with the same steps every time and a clear finish line. Then keep one rule: anything that goes out with your name on it, or anything that spends money, comes back to you for approval.

I'm Dan Thompson, and I run Wolfe Media Group out of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with a small team of AI bots handling parts of my business day to day. Here's what they do, the rule that keeps them safe, and the job I'd start with.

The problem: "I set it up. Now what?"

Alex Finn put up a post on X with over half a million views that said the number one complaint he hears is that people "just don't know WTF to do with agents." He even built a free site full of real use cases at agentusecases.ai.

If you signed up for Grok Bot or any other AI agent and you're staring at it thinking "now what?", this is for you.

Meet my AI bot team

I run four bots, all on Grok Bot.

  • The chief of staff. I call him Jarvis, because I'm kind of a Marvel guy. I talk to him, and everything else gets filtered through him, so I don't have to deal with every bot on every task.
  • The content bot. It handles video packaging, captions and content research for my DieselD brand.
  • The crypto trading assistant. It only makes small trades, and only the ones I approve. More on that below.
  • The fitness accountability bot. I didn't even build this one. A bot builder bot I named Dr. Eggbot designed it for me.

Jarvis sits under me, the other three sit under Jarvis, and I sign off on everything. The bots do jobs. They don't run the business. I do.

Job 1: Record once, post everywhere

This job came together in stages.

  1. By hand. I uploaded every video to six platforms, copying and pasting titles, descriptions and thumbnails six times.
  2. Blotato. With Blotato (affiliate link), I could upload one video, clone it, and change the text, titles and tags for each platform.
  3. Claude. I linked my Claude account. I'd upload the video, and Claude wrote the captions and handled the scheduling.
  4. Grok Bot. Now I upload one video and tell my bot what I want. It watches it, listens to it, even gives me feedback, then writes different titles and captions for each platform and posts them through Blotato to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels and Stories, Threads, LinkedIn and X.

On October 21, I shot on my phone and my DJI Pocket 3. Four videos got posted or scheduled across those platforms in one day, with no copying and pasting into six apps. The bot schedules my X posts too, and I'm working toward posting at least six times a day there.

The point is that posting is the same steps every time. That's exactly the kind of job you hand off.

Job 2: The sponsorship inbox

If you're a creator, your business inbox fills up with sponsorship offers, affiliate offers and programs. Some are real, and a lot are scams that look fine until the third read.

So I have a bot that checks my business inbox, scam checks each offer, joins the legit programs through partner networks like Awin and PartnerStack, and collects the media kits. If a brand fits my videos, I'm ready. I don't waste an afternoon on an offer that was never real.

Job 3: Drafts I approve

My bots draft sponsor pitches and outreach emails to local businesses. Then they stop.

The draft shows up as an approval card right in my chat window, so I don't even have to open my email. I read it, fix what sounds wrong, and hit send myself. If it goes out with my name on it, I'm the last step.

Job 4: Ideas and automations

My bot finds video ideas from real questions people ask on X and Reddit. The video this post came from started on that list.

Behind the scenes, I run n8n (affiliate link) automations, self-hosted on my UGREEN DH4300 Plus NAS at home. When a job is the same steps every single time, my bots hand it to an n8n automation instead of doing it themselves, so I'm not burning AI tokens on repeat work. n8n has a free Community Edition you can self-host, so you can try it without paying anything.

The one rule that keeps AI agents safe

Two kinds of things always come back to me:

  1. Anything that goes out with my name on it
  2. Anything that spends money

Set those safeguards before a bot sends anything into the world. A mistake in a draft costs me a rewrite. A mistake in a post or a spend costs me a whole lot more. The bots do the work, but I hold the keys.

Passwords and money safeguards

The crypto assistant is my best example. It only makes small trades, within amounts I set, and it has to request approval from me every single time. It never withdraws or moves money out of my account. That's a hard rule.

My bots also never touch payouts, bank details or tax settings. All of that is mine.

And I never paste a password into a chat. When a bot needs to log in, I type it into a secure form, or I sign in myself on the screen of the computer the bot is using. The bot never sees or saves my passwords.

Honest limits

This isn't magic, and here's where I've hit walls.

  • Big video files. Anything around 80 MB and up won't go through the chat, so I upload it to Google Drive and give my bot the link.
  • Sign-ins. Some accounts need me to log in myself. I typed my own password wrong twice. That one's on me, not the bot.
  • TikTok Stories. My bot can post to Instagram Stories through Blotato, but not TikTok Stories yet. That one's still on me.

If someone only shows you their wins, you shouldn't believe them. Every job here has a human step, and that human is me.

Where to start with AI agents

Pick one job you do every single week, with the same steps every time. Posting is a good first one, because we all post. It's been my biggest time saver so far. Hand it off this week, and keep yourself as the approval step. Anything with your name or your money on it comes back to you first.

FAQ

What should I do with an AI agent after I set it up? Give it one job you do every week, with the same steps every time and a clear finish line. Posting your content to social media is a good first job, because everyone posts.

What jobs can I give an AI agent? My bots handle four: posting one video to every platform, checking my sponsorship inbox for scams, drafting pitches and emails for my approval, and finding video ideas from real questions people ask on X and Reddit.

How do you keep AI agents safe? Use one rule. Anything that goes out with your name on it, and anything that spends money, comes back to you for approval. The bots do the work, but you hold the keys.

Should I give my AI agent my passwords? No. Never paste a password into a chat. Type it into a secure form, or sign in yourself on the screen of the computer the bot is using, so the bot never sees or saves it.

Can an AI agent handle money? Only with hard limits. My crypto assistant makes small trades within amounts I set, needs my approval for every trade, and never withdraws or moves money out. My bots never touch payouts, bank details or tax settings.

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If you run a small business and want help setting up AI automation like this, with you still holding the keys, that's what we do at Wolfe Media Group. See our services.

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