Shakespeare Theatre Company · August 21, 2026

The End of Busy Work

The staff session's record — everything the room named, the recording, what it turned into, and thirty minutes with us whenever you want it. The board session is kept separately.

76 responses from 8 people51 hrs/week of clipboard work named32 of those hours were email
The recording
The End of Busy Work — the staff session
the recording is for the people who were in the room.

The day, and what it produced

Four hours, five questions, eight people. The board ran the same five questions later that day — their record is their own.

What we did

Where the time actually goes
Curtain work and clipboard work — mapping your week
The AAA framework: Automation, Augmentation, Autonomy
Intro to Claude — hands on keyboards, everyone builds
What an agent actually is · Intro to Hermes
Pick one thing — your four-week plan

The board ran the same five exercises later the same day.

What happens next

NowClaim a build from In Rehearsal — no owner means it's up for grabs
Any dayBook 30 minutes — one to one, nothing to prepare
Bookable30 minutes, one to one, to finish your build
Sept 30Showcase — three-minute demos, real tools, real hours saved

August 21 was the start, not the whole show.

Your first 20 minutes back

The workshop was the easy part. This is the part where the 51 hours start shrinking.

1

Find your build on the In Rehearsal tab — eleven of the room's ideas, written up and ready. No owner means it's up for grabs.

2 minutes. Yours is probably there; claiming it is one email.
2

Copy the first prompt on that card into claude.ai and press enter. That's the build started — keep talking to it like a colleague.

10 minutes. Made-up or public data only, same as the workshop.
3

Book 30 minutes the moment you stall — or before you start, and we'll start it together.

Any day, 9:00a – 9:00p Eastern. Bring the actual mess, not a tidied-up version of it.