What's the time actually worth?
Pick a task you do by hand. Tell it how long it takes, how often, and how tedious it is — the tedium dial is the tell: the more rote and repetitive the work, the more AI can take off your plate and the faster it is to build. Then it shows the hours you'd get back every week, and what that time is actually for.
Tell it how long the task takes and how often you do it. The tedium dial sets how much AI can realistically take off your plate — and how fast it is to build.
Conservative by design: it assumes you keep a human on the part AI can't own. The rote, repetitive end of the dial is where the fast, high-confidence wins live.
What to do with the time
Getting the hours back is the easy part — keeping them is where it's won or lost. Two guides for the two ways that goes wrong, depending on who you are.
The owner-led guide to reclaimed time
small businessWhen you're the bottleneck, reclaimed time is the whole game. The point isn't to do more of the same faster — it's to move yourself from working in the business to working on it.
The enterprise guide to reclaimed capacity
enterpriseIn a big organization, recovered time is only worth something if it's redirected on purpose. Cut headcount and you sever the things that kept your best people; redeploy capacity and it compounds across the org.
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From Running at the Speed of Light, Chapter 14 — The Math, by Business Size · Prometheus Press