I want you to think about your last workday.

How much of it was spent doing things you’ve done a hundred times before? Copying data from one tab to another. Drafting similar emails. Filling out the same form fields. Researching the same types of information.

I tracked my own browser activity for a week once. The results were embarrassing. I spent nearly 12 hours on tasks that were almost identical to tasks I’d done the week before. And the week before that.

Here’s what I found — and I bet your list looks similar.

1. Copy-Pasting Between Tabs

This one’s so common we don’t even notice it anymore.

You find information in one tab. You select it. Ctrl+C. Switch tabs. Ctrl+V. Maybe you do this 50 times a day. Maybe more.

Contact info from LinkedIn to your CRM. Data from a report to a spreadsheet. Text from an email to a document.

Each copy-paste takes 10 seconds. Do it 50 times, that’s 8 minutes. Do it every day for a year, that’s over 30 hours. Just on copy-pasting.

An AI browser agent can see both tabs. It can move information without you touching the keyboard.

2. Writing Emails You’ve Written Before

“Thanks for reaching out…”

“Following up on our conversation…”

“Please find attached…”

How many times have you typed these phrases? How many emails have you written that are 80% identical to emails you wrote last week?

I used to spend 45 minutes every morning just clearing my inbox. Drafting responses. Most of them followed the same patterns. No more copy-paste tax.

Now I open an email, and my AI agent drafts a reply based on the thread context. I review it, tweak a sentence or two, and send. That 45 minutes became 15.

3. Researching the Same Way Every Time

When you need to research a company, you probably follow a pattern. LinkedIn. Their website. Maybe Crunchbase. News articles.

When you research a person, same thing. LinkedIn profile. Google their name. Check their company.

These are workflows. Repeatable steps you do in the same order, looking for the same types of information.

Why are you still doing them manually?

An AI browser agent can run your research workflow for you. Open the tabs. Scan the pages. Compile the findings. You get a summary instead of spending 20 minutes clicking around.

4. Filling Out Forms

Job applications. Expense reports. Client onboarding forms. Vendor registrations.

Every form asks for the same information. Your name. Your email. Your company. Your address.

You’ve typed your own email address thousands of times in your life. Think about that.

Browser autofill helps, but it’s dumb. It fills fields based on field names, and it gets confused constantly. An AI agent actually reads the form, understands what’s being asked, and fills it intelligently — even when field names are weird or questions are phrased differently.

5. Updating CRM Records

Sales teams know this pain intimately.

You have a call. You need to log it. You open Salesforce. You find the contact. You update the record. You add notes. You change the deal stage.

Ten minutes of admin work for every hour of actual selling.

I’ve talked to salespeople who spend more time updating their CRM than talking to customers. That’s backwards.

An AI agent that can see your browser can update records for you. “Log this call with John, moved to negotiation stage, follow up next Tuesday.” Done.

6. Scheduling and Calendar Management

Finding a meeting time shouldn’t require 6 emails.

“How’s Tuesday at 2pm?” “That doesn’t work, how about Wednesday?” “Wednesday’s packed, Thursday?”

Back and forth, tab switching between your calendar and your email, checking availability, proposing times.

This is exactly the kind of tedious, context-dependent task that AI browser agents excel at. They can see your calendar. They can see the email thread. They can propose times that actually work.

7. Data Entry From Web Pages

Here’s one that surprised me when I tracked it.

I was spending almost an hour a week pulling data from web pages into spreadsheets. Competitor pricing. Contact information. Product specs. Event details.

Look at page. Find data. Type it into spreadsheet. Repeat.

An AI agent can scan a webpage, extract the structured data, and put it where you need it. What took an hour takes minutes.

The Math Gets Depressing

Let’s be conservative. Say these 7 tasks eat up just 2 hours of your day. That’s 10 hours a week. 500 hours a year.

500 hours. That’s 12 full work weeks. Three months of your year, gone to tasks a computer should be doing.

The tools exist now to automate most of this. AI browser agents can see your screen, understand context, and take action — not just answer questions. Learn more about how dassi automates browser tasks.

I’m not saying you’ll get all 500 hours back. But even half? That’s 6 weeks of your life returned to you every year.

The question isn’t whether you can afford to try AI automation.

It’s whether you can afford not to.

Get dassi in Chrome and see how many of these tasks you can automate this week.