---
title: "How I work now, and why I do almost everything through chat"
date: "2026-04-19"
categories: [TECH, AI]
readTime: "7 min"
description: "Since the start of 2026, I have moved most of my work into chat. How, why and what I have learnt."
tags: ["ai", "workflow", "adhd", "claude", "automatizace"]
excerpt: "Since the start of 2026, the way I work has completely changed. I do not have twenty Chrome tabs open, battle with admin or hunt for new apps. I open Telegram, enter prompts — and those things happen. I have outsourced the taxes of modern life."
tldr: "I have severe ADHD. Admin suffocates me. Over the past year, I have systematically moved into chat everything that stops me doing what I am good at — Raynet, PowerPoint, Canva, Buffer, email, accounting, deployment, GEO audits, research, even making a physical part for a 3D printer. The result: I do more work and have more time. For the first time in my life, I feel I am doing exactly what I should be doing."
seoTitle: "How I work with AI in 2026: everything through chat, no apps"
seoDescription: "Since the start of 2026, the way I work has changed. I open Telegram, enter prompts — and things happen. A practical guide."
cover: /assets/blog/prace-chat.webp
coverAlt: "Papercut illustration — a man at a desk with a robot assistant, chat bubbles and a checklist"
featuredOrder: 3
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Since the start of 2026, the way I work has completely changed — I do not need twenty Chrome pages open, hunt for new software to solve my problems or keep battling admin. I work and create from anywhere — my best ideas come while exercising, and now I can finish them from my phone before leaving the gym. I spend a lot of time with Alice, and whenever something occurs to me, I send a voice message to the chat and the idea takes shape within moments. I cancel subscriptions and replace them with free local solutions made directly for our needs and mine.
I have never been more creative or more fulfilled at work.
And here I will explain why and how.
## It began with one CRM annoying me
It turned out I have severe ADHD. I received the official diagnosis at 34. Essentially, it means I can put off for two weeks something that would take me twenty minutes. I can devote hours of concentration to things I want to do, and spend weeks delaying others — which then causes quite a few complications. It is a major subject for me at the moment, which I have explored in another project — [ADHD Kompas](https://adhd-kompas.cz).
I hate admin. Finishing things, reporting, forms, formatting PDFs, compiling invoices. That has never felt like work to me. And there was only more admin as I ran Než zazvoní. I wanted to focus on people, strategy, innovation — instead, I put off admin and felt like a failure while doing it.
And a year before the diagnosis, without a conscious plan, I started building something that proved a perfect line of defence against exactly this state.
Raynet. The CRM where we record two and a half thousand schools, contacts and deals. It costs us five thousand CZK a month. You can click around in it. Nobody in the world enjoys that, least of all me. Exactly the kind of tool that makes me feel sick from the login screen onwards.
In March, I tried opening Raynet through Claude. It did not work. No MCP connector exists; an API is available, but Claude does not talk to it on its own. And something clicked: **I pay five thousand CZK a month for a tool that keeps me away from AI. And I use that AI, for a few dollars a day, more than I use Raynet.**
Instead of forcing myself to use Raynet, I downloaded all the data through its API and wrote my own CRM. Small. Claude-first. Only what I need. And above all — controlled through chat. The current workflow? Claude looks through emails, analyses potential leads and enters them into the CRM. Finding training participants or filtering every school with our products takes two prompts.
The next bottleneck was making presentations. I enjoy creating content and sharing experience. But arranging it all in PowerPoint meant hours of unnecessary work. I tried NotebookLM, Gemini, Claude for PowerPoint — nothing worked properly. So I thought about doing it differently. One thing AI excels at is HTML. Now I create presentations in HTML, typeset ebooks and turn them into PDFs with WeasyPrint.
And that is how I am gradually changing all my processes. For every process I do not want to spend time on, I try changing it so it can be controlled through Claude. And it works. Most of my current work is prompting, contact with people, innovation, strategy and projects of my own.
## What I control through chat, and what works
This is not an exhaustive list. Just a cross-section of what comes to mind this evening.
**In the morning and throughout the day.** At 6:30, a briefing arrives — the calendar, three email inboxes, AI news, tasks. During the day, Gabi writes — *“do not forget to collect the parcel from the AlzaBox”* — and 2B reminds me when it is relevant, based on where I am rather than the time.
**Meetings and follow-ups.** Fireflies sits in on every online meeting, transcribes it and extracts action items. Afterwards, 2B turns the transcript into follow-up emails for all participants, summarises what was agreed and proposes next steps. I read the draft, approve it, and it goes out. An hour of post-meeting admin became five minutes of checking.
**Company social media and LinkedIn.** Posts for NZ's pages on FB, IG, LinkedIn and X, plus the company newsletter, go through chat — with Buffer and Postiz in the background. I still write my personal Facebook posts myself, because I enjoy it and see value in it (at least until I start reading the comments).
**Research.** When preparing training or an article and needing to know what is happening now, Claude goes through the internet, X, Reddit, arXiv and whatever is available. *“What is happening around AI in education this week?”* *“Which arXiv papers are relevant to reasoning models?”* Within ten minutes, I have a briefing with links. This led me to a new project where I started uploading AI research from 20–50 different sources and testing SEO and GEO on it.
**Content and creation.** Text in chat, images through [nano-banana](https://nanobanana.ai/) and Kie.ai, presentations in Reveal.js instead of PowerPoint, PDF brochures through WeasyPrint. *“Make an image: a man by a window, evening light, worn out by admin.”* Thirty seconds. Do not like it? Another thirty. It knows NZ's brand manual and automatically keeps to the colours and fonts.
**Songs.** Currently, when something annoys me, I make a song about it through Suno. I put it on the [2nd Renaissance YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@2nd.Renaissance) and we listen in the car — I wrote about [Thursday preachers in Brno](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjp1X5ha76U), [a protest song against lecherous teachers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF0amnBURFg), and most recently about everything that is difficult for young people now ([Still We Try](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6L8dLgGD28)). I do nothing more with it, do not share it — it is a release valve; I enjoy making and listening to it. Gabi makes songs for Alice, and sometimes we make fairy tales.
**Home.** Lights throughout the house through Home Assistant, the 3D printer, a Synology NAS with the family film library. *“Turn the lights above the TV red.”* *“Check the print status, create and print a statutory declaration for me.”* *“Rename the films in the new folder so Plex can find them.”*
**GEO audits and market research.** When I need to find out how schools find NZ through AI search (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini), 2B checks citability, proposes fixes and prepares a PDF report. It handles an agency's one-off job in an afternoon.
**Vercel and deployment.** *“Push the changes to main and deploy production.”* Next.js projects, Vercel functions, env vars, cache — all through chat. I barely touch the deploy button.
**Email and admin.** The end of the month. *“Download all the January invoices into a folder and send them to the accountant.”* A minute. When the accountant asks something afterwards, 2B checks the history, prepares an answer and sends it to me for approval. I always read it before it goes out. **Trust in automation does not mean I stop checking what goes out under my name.**
**My own development.** When I need something that does not exist, 2B builds it. The new Claude Design came out on Friday, and I wanted to test new things with it — a new hero section on jroh.cz. A terminal with a decoder that translates a specialist AI term into human language in real time, and at the end of the interaction asks whether the user wants the newsletter. I described what I wanted. 2B built a Next.js component, connected it to Claude Haiku and added a two-step consent flow. Three hours' work for something that would be a month's project at an agency. With Claude Design, I created an entirely new [website for Gabi](https://gabi-web-two.vercel.app/), and I will certainly look for ways to use it further.
**And today I completed my hardest AI project: making an elbow for a flat duct connected to a 125mm pipe in an absurd position.** For a long time, AI did not understand what I wanted; OpenSCAD was my greatest adversary in recent months. We iterated until it fitted — and it worked. Holding a physical object that probably would not exist without a dialogue with AI is a new level for me.
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There is more. This is a cross-section.
## The paradox: I do more and have more time
Looking back, I do more work for the company than before. More training, more contact with clients, more content.
And at the same time, I have more time for Alice, for myself and for projects I care about and always wanted to do — but never had time for. The ideas are mine, but instead of hundreds of hours of execution, it takes hours of prompting and checking. I can do almost anything, and I intend to use that opportunity.
Because **my work is to help people move forward, help schools, think up solutions, innovate and share knowledge.** Not to format PDFs, search a CRM or schedule social posts.
Gradually, only what I want to do and what has value for me remains manual. Chatting with people, meetings, personal Facebook posts, time with colleagues, Gabi and Alice — I gain time where I imagine everyone wants it.
**I have outsourced the taxes of modern life.**
There is one more thing left to outsource — cleaning. And we are working on it.
## So what mindset follows from this?
Next time something holds you back before work, try replacing *“how do I force myself to do it?”* with another question:
**Can I get around it through chat?**
Usually, you can. And the more things you get around, the less time you spend fighting yourself over what you *“have to”* do.
Start with the one thing that annoys you most and try getting around it.
And no, this is not a recipe just for me. **I currently think everyone has a use for today's AI** — invoicing, reminders, scheduling, help with marketing and sales, writing projects, preparing material, sorting jobs, internal reports. I have already devised and deployed plenty for companies and schools, and everywhere we have saved tens to hundreds of hours. Sometimes it looks like a small automation. Add it up across a year, and it is a full-time job.
The result is that you gain time and energy for what makes sense to you. I do more work, have more time, and for the first time in my life feel that I am doing exactly what I should be doing.
The only thing I know for certain: **the way out does not run through a better to-do app.**
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**A technical note:** It rests on a combination of [OpenClaw](https://github.com/OpenClaw) (open-source orchestration) and Claude. Telegram is the entry point, OpenClaw holds state and routes messages, Claude is the brain. Simple connectors are written for individual services (email, calendar, Raynet API, YouTube, Suno, Home Assistant). A Mac mini at home keeps it running 24/7. If the details interest you, write — I am happy to share.
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