You can hand the family admin to one AI now, and it runs on its own Google account, so it doesn't need yours.
Google Labs turned CC, its experimental AI assistant, into a household agent on September 17. Up to six people, each over 18, each with their own Google account. CC gets an account of its own, with its own permissions, and everybody decides individually what to share with it.
What it does every morning: a brief called "Your Day Ahead", with each person's schedule, their tasks, and what got done. Underneath that, it reads the emails you cc it on, pulls the dates into a shared calendar, keeps a task list that updates itself, pre-fills the permission slip and the activity registration PDF, and writes the school supply list and the weekly meal plan. It can't sign, pay or submit anything. You approve, it fills.
US only, 18+, personal Google accounts. Existing CC users get an upgrade email, everyone else joins the waitlist. Canada, Australia and New Zealand next. Free, for now, because it's a Labs experiment.
Give the AI its own account
This is the bit I'd copy even if you never use CC. CC isn't logged in as you. It's a member of the household with its own login, and it only sees what you cc it on. There's an "Auto cc" for senders you trust (the school, the sports club, the dentist), and once a week it shows you the new senders and you approve them or don't.
That's the new-hire rule built into the product: its own account, only the access the job needs, a preview before anything leaves. Google built it that way because a family is the one place where "the AI read all my email" is an obvious no. Your business is the other place, and almost nobody sets it up this carefully there.
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Right. Back to it.
Set it up so it's useful
Search Google Labs for CC and join the waitlist. When it lands:
Add the household, and pick the one person who's the admin.
Auto-cc the five senders that create most of the admin: the school, the sports club, the doctor, the landlord or the bank, and the one relative who plans things.
Forward it the last month of those emails, so the calendar isn't empty on day one.
Give it one real form to fill, and check every field. Then trust it with the next one.
For the first morning:
Here's what our household looks like: [number of people, ages of the kids, the fixed things each week]. Build our first "Your Day Ahead" brief. Then tell me the three emails from this month you'd have wanted to be cc'd on, and why.That second question is the useful one. It tells you what you're still doing by hand.
What I'd watch
It's a Labs experiment, which means it can change or vanish. Don't move the only copy of anything into it. And the first meal plan will be a model's idea of dinner, not your kids' idea of dinner. Expect to correct it a few times before it learns what a Tuesday actually looks like.
Make it stick
One shared Drive folder called Household, with the standing facts in it: allergies, addresses, who does what, the school calendar. Point CC at it once. Then it stops asking, and so does everyone else.
That's the household admin handed to one AI, with you signing off on anything that leaves. Now picture your business run exactly the same way.
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Quick one.
What's the one recurring form or email you'd hand over first? Hit reply.
Talk soon,
Zephyr
