I'm Holly Brown, an Executive Business Partner in Perth, testing AI at my own desk.
I use Microsoft Copilot at work and Claude for my own business. I'm building agents and trying new features as they land, then share what happened with executive assistants, PAs, administration and business support. The bits that fell over too.
Most of it goes on LinkedIn, and the longer write-ups go in The EA Desk on Substack.
I'd love more of us curious about AI, because what makes it work already sits with us.
01 The seat
What no AI knows about your executive.
Nothing, until you tell it
- Who gets "Dear" and who gets "Hi"
- What gets escalated, and what quietly doesn't
- How they like the numbers laid out
- What they want flagged before anything goes
That's yours. None of that lives in a tool.
02 From my screen
What actually happened.
Real screenshots from my desk, straight from what I've shared on LinkedIn. Some worked. Some didn't.
Worked One prompt checks next week's meetings for agendas and pre-reads, then hands back a chase list.
Half worked Copilot tidied the headings, numbering and dot points. Headers, footers and page numbers it still left to me.
Missed the point Outlook's Get coaching pushed every suggestion softer. It read the words, not the relationship.
03 What you won't find here
No theory and no hype. What I tried at my desk, and what happened when I did.
04 Products
Built at my desk, written up so you can build yours.
The Executive Voice Ghostwriter
The Claude Project I built to draft in an executive's voice. Built and run on my own paid Claude plan.
View the Claude edition
The Executive Voice Ghostwriter
The Copilot agent I built to draft in an executive's voice. I built it with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence.
View the Copilot edition
05 On my desk
What's on my desk.
A new agent.
Still in planning and testing, more on it soon.Turning my time audit prompt into an agent.
Part two of my time audit post.A way for my agents to talk to me, Zoom and Teams style.
Early days.Out tray Written up and ready.
06 Follow along
Every week, on LinkedIn.
That's where I share what I'm testing, as I test it. When something needs more room, I write it up in full on The EA Desk, my Substack.