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Mercer Lane is the author name used for practical Mercer Lane Press guides where appropriate. The guides emphasize clear systems, careful observation, and useful next steps, including office automation, local AI on personal computers, AI visibility for local businesses, and AI-assisted workflows for bookkeepers, property managers, HR professionals, and executive assistants.
A practical household operating system for moving family admin out of memory and into a small set of trusted controls: capture points, clear next actions, calendars, Waiting For, findable records, weekly resets, explicit handoffs, and focused tools for recurring household obligations.
Explore the bookA practical, tool-neutral operating guide for executive assistants who want to use generative AI inside controlled workflows for meetings, communication, briefings, calendars, research, travel, projects, SOPs, documents, automation, and quality control while keeping source discipline, verification, judgment, and release authority with people.
Explore the bookA practical working reference for HR professionals using AI for recurring drafting, communication, documentation, reporting, onboarding, performance management, employee relations, learning and development, and other everyday HR work, with 141 ready-to-use prompts, five connected workflows, five action plans, and a Role + Task + Context + Output framework.
Explore the bookA practical workbook for bookkeepers using AI for recurring communication, documentation, reporting, and workflow tasks, with more than 100 customizable prompts, five connected workflow systems, privacy guidance, short action plans, advanced prompting methods, and a 30-day implementation checklist.
Explore the bookA practical guide to using AI for recurring property-management communication and operations, with structured prompt methods, workflow systems, action plans, privacy precautions, and implementation routines across tenant communication, maintenance, leasing, rent collection, documentation, owner reporting, planning, and conflict resolution.
Explore the bookA practical, provider-neutral manual for finding where a 5G home internet problem begins, testing one variable at a time, and choosing the next useful step.
Explore the bookA practical 30-day system for local service businesses to improve the public evidence that AI and search systems can discover, understand, corroborate, and evaluate.
Explore the bookA practical Microsoft 365 workflow guide built around 30 Power Automate examples for email attachments and files, Forms and SharePoint requests, approvals, overdue work, Excel processing, Teams notifications, reporting, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
Explore the bookA plain-English guide to running useful local AI on a Windows PC, choosing models that fit the hardware, understanding what stays local, working with private documents, troubleshooting slow or unstable setups, and deciding when the cloud is still the better tool.
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