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Should you automate this task?

Answer a few questions and get a straight read: automate it, pilot it, augment it, or leave it. About a minute.

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MethodologyHow the verdict works▾

This is a deterministic decision model, not an AI. It first estimates the time the task costs you per year: how often it happens, multiplied by how long it takes one person, multiplied by how many people are involved. Then it weighs three things that decide how cleanly a task automates: whether it follows set rules or needs human judgment, whether the data already lives in your systems, and whether doing it by hand tends to cause errors.

Those inputs map to one of four verdicts. High-volume, rules-based, already-digital work points to automate it. Judgment-heavy work points to augment it: automate the busywork, keep the human decision. Promising but unproven cases get worth a pilot. Low-volume tasks get leave it for now. The cost figure applies an assumed $50 per hour loaded rate to your own hours.

This is a directional read to help you decide where to start, not a formal audit. The right path depends on your specific systems and constraints.

FAQ

Automation decider questions.

Questions about how it works and what happens after.

Is this an AI chatbot?

No. It is a small, scripted program. It asks set questions and runs your answers through a fixed decision model to reach a verdict. There is no AI behind it, nothing you type is sent to a language model, and the whole thing runs in your browser.

How does it decide?

It estimates the hours the task costs you per year (how often it happens, times how long it takes, times how many people), then weighs how rules-based it is, where the data lives, and how error-prone it is. That maps to one of four verdicts: automate it, worth a pilot, augment it, or leave it for now.

What does 'augment it' mean?

When a task needs real judgment, the answer usually is not to replace the person. 'Augment it' means automate the busywork around the decision, gathering the inputs, prepping the options, handling the routing, so your people spend their time on the actual call.

Where does the cost figure come from?

It is your own labor. We multiply the estimated annual hours by an assumed $50 per hour loaded rate. It reflects what the task costs your team in time, not the cost of any engagement with us.

Why ask for my email?

The verdict and the hours are free on the page. The cost breakdown, the tailored next steps, and a one-page readout you can share with your team are emailed to you.