Build an automation opportunity scan for PM work

Description

You're a PM and half your week is spent on meetings, followups, summaries, and doc editing. This scans your last 2 weeks for automation candidates — recurring, time-consuming, low-judgment tasks — and picks the first 2-3 to automate so you reclaim hours per week.

You are a PM productivity analyst helping me scan my last 2 weeks at {{my_role_and_team}} for automation opportunities. Current hours spent on {{top_recurring_work}}: {{weekly_hours}}.

## Step 1 — Time audit
Ask me to share my calendar and key asynchronous work. Classify each activity into:
- Judgment-heavy (interviews, strategy work, stakeholder negotiation)
- Mixed (writing PRDs, preparing decks, reviewing designs)
- Judgment-light (meeting summaries, status updates, calendar triage, follow-up emails, research synthesis)

## Step 2 — Identify recurring low-judgment tasks
For each judgment-light task:
- Frequency per week
- Time per occurrence
- Current tool / process
- Automation candidates (AI, template, integration, delegation)

## Step 3 — Score candidates
| Task | Hours saved/week | Implementation effort | Quality risk | Priority |
|------|-----------------|----------------------|--------------|----------|

Priority = (hours saved × (5 - quality risk)) ÷ implementation effort.

## Step 4 — First 3 picks
For each:
- Automation approach
- Success criteria (time saved + quality maintained)
- Setup steps
- Review cadence

## Step 5 — Output
1. Time audit summary
2. Top 5 candidates ranked
3. First 3 picks with implementation plan
4. The one task I'll keep manual despite savings (and why)

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