How Agentic AI Helped a Café Owner Reclaim 12 Hours a Week — Without Hiring a Team

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Meet Sheetal: Café Owner, Operator, and... Everyone Else.

Sheetal Shetty is the heart and hustle behind Tryst Café, a warm and welcoming space in India she spent years dreaming about — and finally brought to life. But once the doors opened, the dream quickly turned into an operational overload.

She was the COO on paper — but in practice, she was the:

  • Event planner
  • Menu manager
  • Accountant
  • Vendor coordinaton
  • Instagram content creator
  • And, in her own words, “the secretary to everyone from the cook to the server.”

Like many small business owners, Sheetal wasn’t just running a café — she was holding it together with spreadsheets, late nights, and sheer willpower.

The Breaking Point: Too Much Work, Too Little Time
Our journey started with a midnight phone call (time zones still aren’t her thing). Expecting an emergency, I answered. Her “urgent” question?

“Hey Wrena, what’s this ChatGPT thing everyone’s talking about?” That one question led to a conversation — and then a transformation.

The Turning Point: From DIY to Agentic AI
It began with a simple use case: writing a heartfelt birthday post about Tryst’s launch. We used ChatGPT to help her tell the story. That small success sparked something.

She realized AI wasn’t just for techies or marketing agencies — it could help her. And not just with content. With actual work.

That’s where Agentic AI came in.

🤖 What Is Agentic AI, Exactly?

Unlike traditional AI tools that wait for prompts and spit out text, Agentic AI acts on your behalf. These agents:

  • Understand objectives
  • Break them into tasks
  • Make decisions
  • Execute across systems
  • Learn and improve

In Sheetal’s case, that meant going from:

❌ “Write me a caption for this photo”
to
✅ “Use my weekly promotions + images + event calendar to create, schedule, and post on Instagram automatically.”

Agentic AI doesn’t just assist — it takes ownership of repeatable tasks, so business owners can step back and focus on strategy.

🛠️ Building Her First Agent: The Social Media Time-Saver
Sheetal was already managing the promotions, events, and recipes — she just needed a way to turn that creative chaos into consistent, high-quality content without burning out.

Here's what we did:

  • Set up a shared spreadsheet — She dropped in promotions, thoughts, photos.
  • Created a social media generation agent — It wrote posts, based on Sheetal’s vision.
  • Added visual analysis — She started uploading her own photos directly.
  • Automated the final mile — The agent reviewed the data, created the post, and published it directly to Tryst Café’s Instagram — all without Sheetal touching the app.

What once took hours per week became a 5-minute drop-and-go task.

⏱ The Result: 12+ Hours Saved Per Week
No more last-minute scrambling for captions.
No more switching between tools.
No more delays because a marketing agency “didn’t get the vibe.”

Instead, Sheetal:

  • Got her voice back in her content
  • Gained consistency in Tryst’s marketing
  • Freed up 12+ hours each week

And, finally, found space to be a business owner — not just an operator

“I used to feel like a human switchboard. Now I finally feel like I’m running the café I dreamed about.”


🧩 Why Agentic AI Matters for Small Business Owners
If you're running a team of 1–5 people, you’re wearing too many hats. You don’t need more software. You need:

✅ Smart workflows
✅ Reliable task automation
✅ Tools that take work off your plate

That’s what Agentic AI does. And that’s exactly what WiseBeans builds.

📍 The WiseBeans Approach

We don’t sell you bots or dashboards. We:

  • Understand how your business actually runs
  • Identify what’s draining your time
  • Create an AI Opportunity Map
  • Recommend the right mix of tools and Agentic workflows
  • Build, implement, and support you all the way through

And if you’re like Sheetal — doing 50 things to keep your dream alive — you’ll feel the impact immediately.

💡 Want to Save 12 Hours a Week Like Sheetal?
Let’s chat.
Not about tools. About you — and what you’re trying to build.

👉 Schedule an introductory call with WiseBeans
We’ll show you how Agentic AI can help you focus less on admin, and more on what makes your business great.

 
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