Hire, contract, automate or drop
Something is eating your week. Answer six questions about it and this page gives one of four answers, shows the arithmetic that produced it, and computes what doing nothing costs you a year at your own hourly value. Add every task that is weighing on you and it will also tell you whether the pile is big enough to be somebody's job.
Where your week goes
What doing nothing costs
What to do first
- Add a task above and the order of moves appears here.
The honest line. Add your tasks above and this line will tell you plainly whether Opsbench is relevant to what you found.
The thinking behind this tool: One word in the ad filtered out a quarter of the applicants.
What this page is not telling you
Your hourly value is what your time is worth, not cash in your account. Freeing eight hours a week only becomes money if you spend those eight hours on work that earns. If they go to email and errands, the cost of doing nothing was never real and you have just paid a contractor for nothing.
The scoring is a set of rules written down in plain sight, not a model trained on anything. The whole table is shown so you can disagree with a weight and overrule the answer. A tool cannot know that a task you called low risk is the one that keeps your biggest customer.
Two things this page deliberately refuses to do. It will not call a single task a full time hire below 20 hours a week, because a full week bought for a part week is the most common expensive mistake a founder makes. And it will not tell you to automate anything that only lives in your head, because you cannot automate a process you have never written down.