My Robot Army: How AI Can Free Up Time for Working Mums
When I first floated the idea of a service designed to reduce the mental load of working mums—by taking over their most dreaded household and business tasks (for me, it’s meal planning)—the most common feedback I got was:
"Why should I pay someone to do this when I can just ask ChatGPT?"
Honestly? I completely agree. If you can work with a simple AI interface like ChatGPT, manage all your systems yourself, and do it with zero stress—then yes! Save your money!
But I’m not worried about mothering ever becoming too little work.
I’ve spent a lot of time with Chat recently—developing my business, experimenting with household tasks, and occasionally panic-asking at 5 pm (with everyone growling), “What’s for dinner?” It’s brilliant at getting you from “no idea” to “bad idea” to “good idea” in record time. But it can’t fully do it for you (yet). To get real-life, practical results, you still need human oversight to direct, edit, and decide if “salmon and steamed broccoli every night” is really that great.
I heard a tech expert talking about AI. He compared AI’s effect on mental labour to the bulldozer’s effect on physical labour. What used to take ten men with shovels all day now takes one bulldozer operator about twenty seconds. This is how I see AI playing out for us in the future.
Every industry is figuring out how to use this “brain bulldozer” to streamline and outsource mentally heavy tasks. Mothering is the most important job, so I think we should do it too.
This feels like the start of a new wave of women’s liberation ((hence the “revolutionize modern motherhood!” I’ve started graffitiing on bathroom walls). It’s like when the refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, and washing machine arrived in homes, and women suddenly didn’t have to spend all day handwashing dishes or going to the market every morning for fresh food.
Why do women have to be the ones to do these things? We don’t—and we don’t always. My husband handles the grocery shopping far better than I do. I do the laundry and don’t mind it at all. We’ve recently adopted a robo-vacuum, and our floors are never dirty.
“Mum is the boss” isn’t about being bossy—it’s because we’re the ones who step up and make sure the things that need doing get done, even when we don’t feel like doing them.
But, it’s time, mama, to put that shovel down. We don’t need to be scooping all day anymore.
Here's how we are going to do it.
I want to ask 1000 mums which household or business tasks they never want to do again—and then deploy my AI “robot army” to create remarkable ways to streamline the workflow of modern motherhood.
Meal prepping could become as simple as loading the dishwasher and pressing start. Planning kids’ activities and managing family schedules could feel like tossing laundry into a front loader, instead of hauling it to the river and smashing it on rocks all morning.
While AI systems do the heavy lifting, real local women—working mums—will steer the ship. We, the humans, are the drivers. We are the heart that gives the work meaning.
The robots lift the weight; we use the extra time to connect, brainstorm, decompress, and support each other’s businesses, health goals, and family dreams.
My goal: If you hire a Mindspace team member to orchestrate your AI systems, you’ll get at least a 2x return on your investment in time and money. That means: hire me for 5 hours a week, and get 10 hours back. Spend $200 a week, and free up $400 by making your expenses more efficient.
Once your husband and accountant see the numbers, we can focus on the bigger payoff: more energy, more mindspace, and the ability to enjoy motherhood and small business ownership—without running on empty.
What a vision, huh? Are you excited? I'm super excited.
So, here’s how we start: Tell me the jobs you want off your plate—so you can sit in the sauna instead, guilt-free.
Please take five minutes to fill out my survey. I know it’s a big ask, and you’ve got 1,000 other things to do—but that’s the point.
