AI Agent Automates Biographies

Shaan describes how to automate the biography research process using AI agents to handle the manual work of finding, downloading, and processing content.

The manual process (current state)

• Manually selecting which biography to study (e.g., Ted Turner)
• Finding and downloading the epub files
• Uploading them to processing tools
• Creating summaries and insights

The automated solution with AI agents

• Set up an agent to handle the entire workflow automatically
• Tell the agent: "Every week, every Monday, I want you to deliver this to me"
• The agent can:
  • Think through who you might like to study
  • Find the right biographies
  • Get the PDFs for them
  • Put them into the processing tool
  • Deliver the final output

Output format options

• Send results via email
• Convert to podcast format (read out loud)
• Subscribe to your own personal podcast feed with the content

Key advantage

• Eliminates all the manual steps between deciding what to learn and actually receiving the processed insights
• Works through a simple chat interface where you just tell it what to do
• The agent figures out how to execute the workflow