Honewright

Free tool

Is this worth automating?

Most routine work isn’t worth a custom build — and the tasks people complain about loudest often aren’t the best ones to automate. This is the rough test we actually use to tell a good candidate from a tempting dead end.

Answer a few questions about the task. You’ll get an honest read and a rough sense of the time it’s costing. Nothing is sent anywhere — it all runs in your browser.

How many hours a week does it eat?

Total time across whoever touches it — a rough number is fine.

4 hrs

How much of that is routine, vs judgment?

The repetitive part is what's safe to hand off; the judgment stays with a person.

60%
All judgmentAll routine

How often does it happen?

Roughly what's an hour of that person's time worth?

Loaded cost — wages plus the work they're not doing instead.

Can a person review the result before it matters?

If it goes wrong, how costly is the mistake?

The read

Worth a closer look

Time currently going into the routine part

~115 hrs/yr

$8,600 of time a year

The ceiling on what’s recoverable — not a promised saving. It’s the time the routine part is costing you now.

  • It happens often enough that any time saved compounds week over week.
  • Most of it is routine, which is exactly the part that's safe to hand off while a person keeps the judgment.

A rough first read, not a quote — and nothing here leaves your browser. The honest version is a short conversation. Tell us what’s eating your time →

Got a strong candidate?

Tell us about it. The first call’s free — 30 minutes, no pitch — and we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s worth building.