Welcome back to Watch Me AI
If you're new here, or missed this week's announcement, quick context:
I'm Mollie and I run Watch Me AI, where I teach people how to actually put AI to work in their business and life.
This week I had my second baby. Instead of pausing everything for three months, I handed the business to a set of AI agents I built before going offline. I'm calling it Maternity Leave Mode, and I'm running it as a public experiment so you can see what holds up and what breaks. Read more here.
In this newsletter, I'm sharing my setup. The agents that are working autonomously while I'm out. There are six of them so far:
The Newsletter Agent
This is the one writing to you from next week on. Every Sunday night it reads through my idea log, scans AI news and the people I follow, checks my old newsletters so it doesn't repeat me, and brainstorms topics for the new week. It then picks its favorite topic, drafts the whole thing, and sends me an email which I can approve from my phone.
The part that took the longest was the voice, because I trained it on how I actually write and talk, my old blog posts and the way I dictate into my phone, and not some polished AI version of me. It's got a post on how I built this lined up for later.
The LinkedIn Agent
Takes whatever the newsletter is about that week and reshapes it into a few LinkedIn posts, the same ideas in different forms, so I keep showing up there while I'm offline. It also creates net new posts based on the news and other topics I typically cover.
AI Mollie
My AI twin. She lives on my site and has access to some of my work and content so she can answer questions while I'm out. She is the lite version of the AI Mollie bot that lives in my Business Playbook and has my FULL library and AI brain behind it.
The Revenue Optimizer
This one owns the money side, which as a solopreneur on leave with nobody paying me is kind of the whole point. It keeps the things I've already built working, the lead generation tools, the products, the traffic to them, and it watches the numbers and proposes what to do next. For example, which offer a given week should feature, how to word a call to action, what to test. It hands all of that to me as ready-to-approve recommendations, and nothing goes live or gets priced or reaches the list without me signing off. It is also the newest of the bunch, so it is the one I'll be watching the closest.
The Research Agent
Reads the AI world so I don't have to keep up with it while I'm out. Every week it goes through the news, the new tool launches, and what the people I follow are saying, and it pulls out the handful of things actually worth writing about. It is how the newsletter stays current and timely instead of just recycling what I already think, and the Newsletter Agent starts from whatever it finds.
The Metrics Agent
Keeps an eye on all the numbers I would normally be refreshing myself, the subscribers, the opens and clicks, the sales, how the LinkedIn posts did, the traffic to my products, and every Friday it turns all of that into a short plain-English email that tells me what happened, what moved, and what to try next. I don't have to go digging through a dashboard, I just get the read, and it hands the same data to the Revenue Optimizer so that one can act on it.
What I approve, and what I never automated
Nothing publishes without me seeing it first. The agents draft, I sign off. And some things I deliberately left off the table for the whole leave: no client work, no live meetings, no changing prices or ad spend, no agent replying as me in private. The drafting is automated. The judgment isn't.
This experiment launched on Tuesday, so I'm giving it several weeks of autonomy to see how it's doing. I plan to check in later this month to see what needs human optimizing. I will keep y'all posted.
Mollie
P.S. If you want the workflows running underneath all of this, that's what the AI Business Playbook is for: molliemueller.com/courses/ai-business-playbook
