What I actually do in a day building voice agents for SMB customers. The tools, the time blocks, the rituals, the things that make the work compound — and the things I had to stop doing to make any of it work.
People ask me what I actually do all day. The honest answer is "less than you'd expect, and more on the things that matter." Here's a representative weekday at TrainYourAgent in May 2026 — the tools, the time blocks, the rituals. This is not a productivity manifesto. It's a snapshot of what's working right now for an operator running a ~$20K MRR voice-AI shop with no team. Some of it will be obsolete by Q4.
Some of it will compound for years. 6:15 AM — Coffee and the inbox triage I'm up before the kid. First 15 minutes is coffee + Superhuman, processing overnight email. Three buckets: Customer issues — anything that says "agent didn't book," "agent said something weird," "billing." These get a 90-second reply with an ETA, then go on the work list. Sales / inbound — anyone who booked a Cal.com slot or replied to a sequence.
What I actually do in a day building voice agents for SMB customers. The tools, the time blocks, the rituals, the things that make the work compound — and the things I had to stop doing to make any of it work. It is filed under Founder Notes because that is where operators looking for this problem actually start, and it is written from production work rather than from a content calendar.