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Heirloom Tools
No AI — fixed rules · ~5 min

Time and Capacity Calculator

One task, examined properly. Tell it how long something takes, how repeatable it is, whether it is written down and what it touches, and it returns what that costs you in hours a year and how much could responsibly come back — as a range, never a single figure. Money is optional throughout.

What it does

  • Work out the real annual cost of one task, honouring seasons and projects rather than annualising everything to 52 weeks
  • Give a conservative, likely and strong-implementation range, and name the thing holding the estimate down
  • Separate hours reclaimed from what they are worth from cash actually saved — three different things
  • Refuse to count mentoring, difficult conversations, creative authorship or walking the land as inefficiency

What it does not do

  • Promise savings. It models your own numbers and uses no industry benchmark
  • Treat time as money. Reclaimed hours are capacity, and no cash moves unless a real expense stops
  • Suggest the saving is somebody’s job
  • Require any financial information at all

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The task

One task, properly. A long list produces a big number and no first move.

Which repetitive task takes the most out of your week?Not the one you dislike most — the one that happens the same way most often.