MILLWRIGHT.
One job · done by hand · about two minutes

Is it worth fixing?

Pick one thing your team does by hand every week. Tell me how often it happens, how long one takes, and how cleanly it runs. Two minutes later you'll see what it costs you in a year, how much of that would actually come off, and the cheapest way to get those hours back. And when the honest answer is leave it alone, it says that too.

Same arithmetic as the $999 report, at the conservative end of every range. It runs in your browser, and seeing the answer never needs an email.

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The job
01

Just a name for it, so the answer reads like it's about your business.

02 How many times a week does it happen, and how long does one take?

One go, start to finish, including the bit where they go and find the information. Not the whole afternoon it lives inside.

times a week minutes each

Most people say a feel, and most people are wrong by more than they expect, usually low. It changes what I'm willing to tell you.

03 Out of ten of those, how many go straight through the way you'd expect?

The odd ones don't count: the phone call, the chase, the exception, the one somebody has to stop and think about. This is the question that decides whether automating it would actually work, and almost nobody asks it before selling you something.

Mostly exceptionsAlmost all clean
04 Who actually uses what comes out of it?
05 Which of these is closest to what the work actually is?
06 Who does it?

I'm not going to ask you what an employee costs you fully loaded, because almost nobody knows that number off the top of their head and a wrong one here makes everything below wrong. Pick the closest role and I'll use a normal salary for it. Change the salary if mine is off, and the arithmetic is shown so you can check it.

Salary I'll use

Nothing you type here leaves your browser on its own. There's no analytics on this page and no server doing the arithmetic — it runs where you're sitting, and closing the tab is the end of it. The only things that ever leave are the ones you send: the print dialog, the mail buttons under the result, and — if you ask for your result in writing — your email address, with that result attached, so I can send it. Each one is your doing, not mine, and the verdict above them is always complete before any of them is offered.

Full disclosure, because half-true privacy claims are the thing I'm arguing against: the page loads its three typefaces from Google's font service, the same as the rest of this site. Your answers are not part of that request.
What this page doesn't know

The honest limits of a number you got in two minutes.

Every one of these is a real reason the answer above could be wrong. I'd rather hand them to you than have you find them yourself. A tool that can't tell you where it's weak is a brochure with arithmetic on it.

  • It's one job. The five hours a week I guarantee to find is never in one place. It's twenty minutes here and forty there, across four people, which is exactly why nobody has ever added it up.
  • You gave me the numbers. I didn't watch the work. If the timing is a feel rather than a count, the honest move is to count it for two weeks before spending anything.
  • I haven't looked for the product. Naming one on a page like this would be dishonest: the price would be stale by the time you read it, and choosing between two means knowing what else you run and what you'd have to stop using.
  • The reduction rates are practitioner judgment, not measurement. They're the ones the $999 report uses, at the conservative end of each range, but nobody has followed a business for three months to prove the freed hours stayed freed. The first person who does will be me, and when it happens I'll change the numbers here and say that I changed them.
If you want the whole week done properly

The AI Reality Check.

This page prices one job you already suspected. The reality check is 45 to 60 minutes on your whole week, and it finds the ones you didn't. Every manual job with the arithmetic beside it, three to seven fixes ranked by effort against payoff, and a four-day plan — and if something clears the build bar, that's the agent-first work I'm actually for. $999, and if I can't find five hours a week of manual work you can get rid of, you don't pay.

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