Automate Your Day with AI: Save Hours with Practical Smart Workflows

SANDRA PORCHIA is an automation strategist and productivity researcher with over a decade of experience helping individuals and organizations reduce busywork and focus on what matters. She began her career in operations management at a Fortune 500 technology company, where she first encountered the transformative potential of workflow automation. Frustrated by the amount of time her teams spent on repetitive manual tasks, she began building automated systems that eventually saved her department over 10,000 hours annually.

That experience sparked a passion that has defined her career ever since. She spent the next several years consulting with companies ranging from early-stage startups to enterprise organizations, designing custom automation solutions tailored to each team's specific workflows. Along the way, she discovered that the same principles that worked for large teams applied equally well to individuals—and that the most impactful automations were often the simplest ones.

Sandra is the creator of the Automate Your Day methodology, a practical framework that has helped thousands of professionals reclaim their time through smart, sustainable automation. She is a regular speaker at productivity and technology conferences, where she is known for her practical, no-hype approach to AI adoption. Her writing has appeared in *Wired*, *Harvard Business Review*, and *Inc.*, and she is the host of the top-rated *Automate Your Day* newsletter.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she continues to build and test automation workflows in her own daily life. When she's not optimizing something, she can be found hiking in the Columbia River Gorge, experimenting with sourdough baking, or reading speculative fiction. She believes that the best automation is invisible—and that the time it saves should be spent on the people and pursuits that make life worth living.

This is her first book.