Quick Start Guide · 15 · No coding needed

Set it up once on a Friday and stop thinking about it.

Eight chapters on taking your name out of the process: one command for the whole week, a clock that pulls it, a log that says what happened, and the handover that lets somebody else run it.

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Quick Start Guide · 15

Make It Run Without You

One command,
on a schedule

No coding needed

$15

What's inside

Eight chapters, and the set ends here.

01

What "run without you" means

The goal in one sentence, the three things still worth your attention, and what this guide does not need.

02

Teaching the checker to fail

Exit codes in one paragraph, the two lines that stop a run, and a check for the page itself.

03

One command for the whole week

The runner line by line, what it refuses to do, and a second runner for a different week.

04

The log

What a log line looks like, where the file lives, and the five questions it answers in five seconds.

05

Putting it on a schedule

Mac and Windows, the honest list of reasons a job does not fire, and the first scheduled Friday.

06

The last manual step

Printing the page, the command-line export that could replace it, and what never to automate.

07

The handover

A five-line README, a demonstration in which you say nothing, and the three sentences you say out loud.

08

When it breaks

The four shapes a failure takes, reading the log to find which, and the recovery that always works.

Look inside

Three real pages from the 33-page PDF.

Rendered straight from the file you'll download — an explanation, a worked step, and a page from the build. No mock-ups, no stock screenshots of someone else's screen.

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The Friday report — the one page the At Work set builds — is what these pages are working towards: the numbers pulled out of a file, checked, charted, and put in front of someone without you holding the process. See the rest of the collection →

Who it's for

People who are tired of being the only one who knows.

A system that only works when you remember it is not a system, it is another thing on your list. This guide puts the whole week behind one command and a clock.

It also covers the part nobody thinks about: handing it over so the report still appears when you are not the one running it.

Questions

Before you buy

Do I need a server or a special account?

No. It runs on your own machine with the scheduler that is already in the operating system.

What if my computer is asleep?

The guide covers cron, launchd and Task Scheduler, including which ones run a missed job when the machine wakes.

Do I need the other four guides?

You need a folder that already builds the report. If it does not, start with Guide 13 and come back.

What do I get after checkout?

An instant download link for a clean, print-friendly PDF. Yours to keep, on any device or printed.

The collection this belongs to

All five At Work guides for $64.

Automating a task you repeat, getting data out of a page, using AI at work and checking what it gives you, presenting your numbers so they get believed, and setting the week up to run without you. No coding experience needed.

Automate the Boring Part · Get Data Out of Anything · Use AI at Work · Make It Look Professional · Make It Run Without You · 165 pages in total

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