Count the week before you change it

Ask an owner how many hours a week go on quotes, email and chasing payment, and the answer comes straight back with no pause to count. It is a guess about the hardest part of the week to see, the small jobs that never get written down.

The Capacity Indicator starts from a count instead. You pick up to three jobs that eat your week, tenders, quotes, reports, email or chasing payment, and you count last week step by step. It then shows the hours, what could come back with Claude, and what that is worth at your own rates, with a low, a central and a high figure for each job.

Every range comes from published research, with the source named on the line. The studies measured ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, not Claude, and the report says so. Where no study has measured a step it says "not yet counted" and leaves the number out, and pricing, measuring and final checks stay with you.

Across a whole week the saving is modest. Large surveys of people using these tools, one covering about 25,000 workers in Denmark, find 3 to 5% of the week. The first month asks more of you than it gives back, and the year figure assumes the saving lasts once you are set up.

Email is the simplest job to start with. Each morning, ask Claude to sort yesterday's email into answer now, answer this week and file, and to draft the first five replies. You send them. Count how long the morning takes for a week.

A count gives you a number to set a later one against. Count a job for a week, change how it gets done, count it again, and put the two side by side. The difference is measured on your own jobs, in your own hours.

Count your own week at indicator.yourspinstate.com/capacity