Automated Empire

SMALL AUTOMATIONS. EXPLICIT TRADEOFFS.

Price the work around automation.

Estimate time returned, allow for review and maintenance, and design recovery before handing a repeated task to software.

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01 / FIELD GUIDE

Choose a task worth automating

Start with stable inputs and a recoverable outcome.

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Design retries that do not repeat business actions

A repeated request is not always a harmless second try.

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Begin with your own evidence

Model recurring labor time separately from cash savings. Time returned only becomes a cash saving if spending actually falls.

Hours returned = runs × (manual minutes − review minutes) ÷ 60. Modeled monthly value = hours returned × hourly value − recurring cost. The example returns 13.33 hours and models $350 net monthly value, with 1.14 months simple payback on $400 setup.

Hourly value is an assumption, not money automatically received. Exceptions, outages and review can erase the estimated benefit. The model excludes revenue growth, taxes and financing; do not add speculative sales to the labor estimate.

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