Strategy
The five-test scorer
Score a workflow before anyone announces it.
The playbook’s five tests, as an instrument. Describe the workflow honestly — the scorer tells you whether it has the shape of automation that compounds, or the shape that ends up as a case study on this site.
Interactive instrument
01Cost of a wrong answer
02Reversibility
03Escape hatch
04Feedback loop
05Volume vs. judgment
Answer all five tests to get a verdict.
A deliberately small model — built to make one asymmetry visible, not to forecast your business. The assumptions are conservative and the arithmetic is in the open.
The analysis behind it
Good automation, bad automation→