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A self-assessment from The Next Rung

The forty-minute moment.

How much of your week could Claude do in forty minutes? Five questions. One honest answer about your delegable hours.

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Five questions

How does your working week actually break down?

Move each slider to the number of hours per week that feels honest. There is no right answer. The lower the better for these particular tasks.

01 Meeting prep
0h / wk

Agendas, pre-reads, background notes, slides, talking points.

Honest check: if you know you should be doing more of this, use what it would honestly take, not what you currently spend.

02 Recurring reports
0h / wk

Weekly status updates, monthly reports, client updates, project summaries.

Honest check: count the version where they are actually good, not the rushed copy-paste you send at 9pm.

03 Inbox and message triage
0h / wk

Not the deep replies. The triage. The sorting. The acknowledgements.

04 Summarising information
0h / wk

Research syntheses, desk research, competitive scans, meeting notes into action lists.

Honest check: if you keep skipping this because there is no time, add the hours it would take to do it properly.

05 Scheduled admin
0h / wk

The parts of your job that are the same every week. Invoicing, timesheets, expenses, scheduling, data entry.

£ Annual salary

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Running total 0 hrs / week selected

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Your forty-minute moment

About 0% of your working week is delegable hours.

0 hours

Delegable hours a week Claude could absorb.

0 days

A year back.

£0

A year in recaptured cost.

0%

Of your working week.

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This is a blunt estimate built on conservative numbers. Those delegable hours do not need another tool you have to learn. They need a junior team member you trust. That is what Orca is: the junior team member you would hire if you could find, afford, train, and keep one. The newsletter unpacks what that means and what to do about it. Unsubscribe any time.

Conservative coefficients, UK working week of 37.5 hours, 47 working weeks a year. The tool runs entirely in your browser. Your salary stays on your device. Only the email and the final score are logged when you submit.

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