She reads the whole page aloud. Six minutes, no jargon.
Press play, or use the Listen button on any section.
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How this works, in plain language
You do your job for a week. Something quietly notes which programs you used and how long each thing took — never what you typed. At the end you get a document that says what your work costs and what to automate first.
1It watchesA week of normal work
2You confirmSix questions and a few numbers
3You get a planCosted, phased, yours to keep
Why not just ask people?
Because the answer is always a guess, and everything after it inherits the guess.
Asking
“Invoicing? Maybe four hours a week.”
Rounded to a story, not a stopwatch
Leaves out the spreadsheet nobody mentions
Never mentions copying numbers between two screens, because that is remembered as part of the job, not as a job
Watching
“Ten point six hours a week each, across two people, over eighteen observed runs.”
A measurement you can put in a business case
Finds every program the work actually touches
Catches the copy-paste between systems — usually the most expensive habit in the building
What it sees, and what it throws away
This is the part people worry about, so watch it happen. On the left is what someone actually did. On the right is every single thing that reached our server.
What you did
What we stored
Notice what never crosses: the customer name, the dollar amount, the address you typed, the invoice number in the web address. The page you were on becomes just Salesforce · /orders/:id/edit. There is nowhere in our database to put the rest — the columns do not exist.
The whole thing, screen by screen
Six screens. Click through them, or press play and let it run.
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Where the money numbers come from
Six steps, all of them arithmetic you can check. Nothing here is a model's opinion and nothing is an industry average. Press the button to build it up one step at a time.
The two rules that keep it honest
Rule one
Time is measured. Money is typed by a person.
A browser can time your work. It cannot know what anyone is paid. So if nobody enters an hourly rate, that job shows its hours and contributes zero dollars — and the report says so by name, instead of quietly using a industry average and passing it off as your number.
Rule two
A short week is reported, never stretched.
If we only watched for two days, we do not multiply by three and a half to make a week. That would turn a guess into something that looks exactly like a measurement. Two days is reported as two days, marked low confidence.
And it refuses to finish if you skip something. Miss one of the six questions and it will not produce a roadmap around the gap. It stops and tells you which answer is missing. A confident document built on things nobody asked is exactly what most executives have already been sold once.