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// FRICTION_COST.exe — NAME_THE_LACK

What does busywork really cost your team?

Busywork is the re-typing, the chasing, the copy and paste. Start with a quick guess, or list the tasks one by one, and see what they cost you every week and every year.

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Step 1 · A quick guess

How much time goes to busywork?

Busywork is the re-typing, the chasing, the copy and paste: work that has to happen but doesn't need a person's judgment. A rough guess is fine. The example numbers are there so you can see how it works.

Your hours are
Step 2 · What an hour costs you
Pay plus taxes and benefits. Not sure? Use hourly pay × 1.3.
50 leaves room for holidays and time off.
// NAME_THE_LACK

You can't fix friction you haven't named

01 · Log it for a week

Run your own Friction Week

For one normal week, everyone jots down each task that felt slow, repetitive, or pointless, and how long it took. Your gut guesses above get replaced by real numbers.

02 · Pick the top 3

Start with the biggest leaks

Not every task should go to AI. Pick the three that cost the most and where a mistake would be easy to catch.

03 · Count the checking

AI time isn't free time

Any task you hand to AI still needs someone to check it. Count that time honestly before you call anything a saving. That's Law 1: everything costs something.

The Friction Cost Calculator is part of the Keepers Toolkit by Terminal X. Keepers is a hands-on program that helps small teams hand the busywork to AI and keep their people in charge of checking it.

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