The cabin is 150 miles away. A caretaker handles on-site work, a cleaner handles turnovers, plus the usual utility/insurance/propane/internet stack. Used to be: things slipped, I’d find out three months later when a bill bounced or an inspection went out of date.
Now there’s a project file that knows: next caretaker visit, last cleaner visit, current outstanding invoices, expiring policies, deferred repairs, seasonal deadlines (weed-whack before fire season, propane before winter, tree pruning around PG&E line work). AI doesn’t do any of those — it just doesn’t let me forget any of them.
The genuinely freeing thing isn’t automation. It’s that I stopped carrying the list in my head.