Hundreds of videos, three hours

A customer was about to pay about 4,000 € a year for video hosting, and moving hundreds of videos by hand meant weeks of work. An AI agent did it in three hours, with tests and a list of spots to check. What that taught me about the price of a task.

One of my customers was about to pay about 4,000 € a year for video hosting. An unexpected plan update had arrived, and the deadline to act was only a few days away. It was a members area that mostly just needs to play videos reliably.

The fix was clear. Move everything to bunny.net, which does the same job for around 300 € a year. We knew that for a long time.

We had not done it, and the reason was not money. The reason was the work.

Why it kept waiting

Several hundred videos sit inside that members area. Each one has to be moved. Then every lesson page has to point to the new place. Every title has to still match its video. Every link has to work.

Done by hand, that is weeks of work, maybe months. And it is the kind of work where things go wrong quietly. A video goes missing. A link points to nothing. One page gets forgotten. The worst part is when you only notice after the old videos are already gone.

So the job stayed on the list for when there is time, and the hosting kept costing more than it should. Then the unexpected plan update arrived, and there was no more time to wait. Every business has a few of these jobs.

What I did instead

I gave the job to Claude, as one clear task: move the videos, switch the whole members area to the new links, test it, and tell me what still needs a human look.

That last part matters. I did not only ask for the work. I asked for the work, the tests, and an honest list of the places where it was not sure.

Three hours later it was done.

Not three hours of me typing. Three hours from the first instruction to a members area running on the new hosting, with tests behind it and a short list of spots to check. I checked them. That was my part, and it was the right part for me: judging the result instead of doing the repetition.

My customer now pays around 300 € a year instead of 4,000 €, and the plan update no longer matters.

What I took from it

The expensive part was never the task. It was the belief about the task. We had priced this job at "weeks to months" in our heads, and that price had quietly cost thousands of euros a year. When the real price turned out to be three hours, the whole decision looked different.

Ask for the checklist, not only the result. "Do it and tell me where you are unsure" is a better instruction than "do it". The list of open spots turns a risky migration into a review that fits into one afternoon.

My job moved. I still own the outcome. But I spend my attention on the decisions and the checking, not on moving file number 214 to its new home.

What this means for you

Think about your own list. Which job do you keep postponing because you have priced it in weeks? Which tool or subscription do you pay for only because switching feels too heavy?

Some of those prices are probably out of date. This one was.

You do not need to be technical to start. You need one real task, a clear description of what should come out, and the habit of asking the agent to show you where it is unsure.

That is exactly what we practice in the AI Academy workshop: you bring one of your own tasks, and we work out together how an agent can take it over. Live, on Saturday, 24 October 2026, three hours, 199 €.

Which job on your list would you hand over first?