Frame It — Deciding What to Hand Off

Lesson 1Three buckets for every task

Not every task is a good fit for AI, and not every task should be kept entirely to yourself either. The first habit is learning to quickly sort a task into one of three buckets.

• •Full handoff — low-stakes, well-understood tasks where a wrong or awkward result costs almost nothing to fix: a first draft of a social caption, business name ideas, reformatting a messy list into a table.
• •Collaboration — medium-stakes tasks where AI can do real heavy lifting but you stay closely involved: a business proposal, a marketing plan, debugging a coding problem.
• •Keep it yours — high-stakes tasks involving judgment, relationships, legal or financial consequences, or deep local context AI can't reliably access: handling a serious complaint, negotiating a contract, a final hiring decision.

Real-life example: Abena runs a small tailoring business. Drafting an Instagram caption for a new fabric arrival? Full handoff — low stakes, easy to fix if it's off. Writing a marketing plan for a second location? Collaboration — AI structures ideas and researches competitors, but she makes the strategic calls. Deciding whether to let an underperforming employee go? Entirely hers — that needs judgment, empathy and local labour knowledge no AI tool has.