See where your week went.
Log one typical week. See what only you can do, what someone else could handle, and the first task to hand off.
By the end, you will have:
- A clear picture of where your time goes.
- The work that depends on you and the work that does not.
- A specific handoff with an owner and deadline.
Roughly how many hours went where?
Use a typical week and estimate to the nearest half hour. Leave anything that does not apply at zero.
See the shape of your week.
The four bands are not wages. They help you compare routine work with work that depends on you.
Log a few hours above and your read appears here.
A rough benchmark for a 1–20 person business. Use it for direction, not as a target you must hit.
Hand off one task.
Choose one task, one owner, one deadline, and a clear definition of done.
Your biggest low-value tasks show up here once you've logged hours.
Pick a task above and your handoff plan writes itself here.
Use a prompt only if it saves you time.
These are optional. They use anything you entered above to give you a useful starting point. Before pasting into an AI service, remove names, account details, confidential pricing, logins, employee information, and customer data. Review the answer before using it.
Use what helps. Leave the rest.
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