Audit Your AI Life: A Creator’s Guide to Working Smarter
Your roadmap to saving hours, unlocking revenue, and staying in creative flow.
At our recent roundtable, Women Leading Marketing in the Age of AI, we gathered powerhouse women across marketing, brand, and operations. All leading in their industries and navigating how AI is shifting the way we grow businesses. Whether they were working with large brands or growing creator businesses, one theme kept surfacing: interest in AI was high, but confidence in using it day-to-day was low.
Most had experimented, though, used ChatGPT here and there, but the leap from dabbling to designing smarter systems felt out of reach. They had the excitement and ambition, but without the clarity.
I get it, the AI conversation has felt either very technical or surface-level to be useful. So here is a clear, actionable audit to help you step into your next level with AI. The CD Way, of course.
Before You Buy Another Tool or Hire Another VA... Do This Audit First
Perspective is everything.
Without pausing to assess how your time, tools, and team are working together, it’s easy to stay stuck in busy mode. Paying for tools you barely touch. Delegating tasks that could be automated. In the routine of it used to work, but doesn’t quite so much any more.
That’s why an audit matters. It forces you to zoom out. To map what’s working, what’s wasting time, and what’s ready to evolve.
This is how you get intentional about your AI stack and stop pouring energy into the wrong places.
Introducing the CD Creator AI Audit
The CD Creator AI Audit
Part 1: Awareness Audit
What do you do manually every single day?
What tasks slow you down but still need to get done?
What decisions are you making repeatedly across platforms?
What’s the most annoying part of your weekly workflow?
This is your first clue. Because where there’s repetition, there’s an opportunity for automation.
Part 2: Delegation Clarity
What would you give a junior assistant to do? Think admin, scheduling, research, formatting, follow-ups.
Then ask:
What needs your creativity versus just your approval?
Where do you procrastinate that AI could help move things forward faster?
This shows you where AI could act as a virtual junior — lightening the load, not replacing your creativity.
Part 3: Automation Readiness
Some tasks are too repetitive to delegate and too boring to keep doing. That’s your automation zone.
Which of your tasks follow a clear structure or logic?
Which platforms already have AI features you’re not using?
Where are you copying and pasting the same stuff?
These are prime candidates for low-lift automations or AI assistants.
Part 4: Outcome Alignment
Not every AI use case is urgent. So the final question is — what’s the point for you?
Do you want to:
Save time?
Save money?
Scale your content?
Reclaim creative energy?
Once you know the outcome, you can build your AI stack with purpose.
Ready to make it real? Use this fillable checklist to work through each section of the audit.
Access the full checklist here
Tooling With Intention
New apps drop daily, each one promising to be the one that saves you time or scales your brand. Often leaving you with tool bloat. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good tool, but there are so many and it’s difficult to know which to try. The ones that make sense for your use case.
I’ve built this AI Tools Directory to help you cut through the noise. It’s curated with tools selected to lighten your load, not add to it.
See this as your go-to resource for building a smarter system around your creativity. You can browse by use case and see which tools are AI-powered. Need to automate your outreach, speed up content production or streamline your inbox? We’ve got you.
For each tool, you can review its key features, our take, pros, cons and of course, pricing. Make sure to choose the ones that align with your goals, not trends, as the tools matter less than the clarity of what you need.
→ Explore the CD AI Tools Directory
The ROI of Being First
The creators who leaned into Instagram early built empires. The same thing is happening now, but with AI.
Ask yourself: How can I build a leaner, faster, smarter operation around me?
At the roundtable, someone joked about calling their AI assistant “Charlie” and using him to rewrite brand emails. Another shared how Claude now drafts all her Instagram captions and Substack intros.
This is the moment to experiment, document, and optimize. No one is saying you need to be an expert; you just need to be on the field, playing the game.
Want Help? Let’s Audit It Together
We created this framework because a top question I get is: Where do I even start?
So we turned it into something real. If you want to uncover time-savings, monetization wins, and systems you didn’t know were possible, we’ve got you.
We’ll walk through it with you and leave you with an action plan that respects your time, your talent, and your goals.
This is your pause moment before you buy another tool. Before you delegate out of desperation. Before you slip into another cycle of overwhelm disguised as growth (you know who you are!).
I’ve created this post to help you take a step back and gain clarity on what’s truly driving your business. From time and tools to your team, it’s all connected. And when you don’t take the time to audit it, you end up building on top of chaos. No matter how smart the tool or how talented the person, nothing works well if the foundation is messy.
If you're here reading this, consider it your green light to stop, reassess, and reset. Look at what you’re spending time on. Get honest about what’s driving results. Then use the audit as a way to rebuild, realign, and reimagine how your systems support you.
Audit your AI life. Then build it better.
With love,
Chloé x
Founder & CEO
chloédigital
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