At work I have systems for everything. At home I had sticky notes and vibes. So I started running my house the way I run my company, and gave Claude the operations job.
Three things it handles in the background now.
1. Dinner, ordered
I told Claude my family's preferences once. Olive doesn't eat anything green. Luna only eats pasta. My husband can't have nuts.
Now when I say "order us dinner from somewhere within 15 minutes," it does it. Picks the place. Picks the meals. Submits the order. I did the thinking once, in one conversation, and I've been coasting on it ever since.
2. Subscriptions, audited
Shopify, Costco, every weird membership I've ever signed up for. Once a month Claude pulls them all up, flags the price hikes, and flags anything I haven't touched in 60 days.
It found a $47-a-month thing last month that I did not know was still running. I couldn't tell you what it was for. That's the point.
3. Kid stuff, drafted
Olive's birthday party. I told Claude what I wanted. It found the vendors, drafted the messages, and left them sitting in my drafts folder. I read them, hit send, and she had a princess party.
I was still the mom. I made the calls that mattered. I just didn't spend three evenings finding a bounce house.
The honest version
It's not magic. It's me handing off the parts of my life I was bad at, the remembering and the researching and the re-typing, so I can be better at the parts only I can do.
Start with the one that drains you most. For me it was dinner. Yours might be the party planning. One system, set up once.