PeopleAMP
The 10-Hour Audit25-min read

Find 10 hours of automatable work in your business this week.

A short diagnostic for founders, COOs, and ops leads who suspect there's hidden time in their week — and want to know exactly where, before they spend a dollar trying to fix it.

By the PeopleAMP teamUpdated quarterlyNo email required to read

00 · The premise

Most operators looking for time savings count meetings.

The 10–40 hours we find for clients are nowhere near meetings. They're in the silent work — the swivel-chair tasks between systems, the report that gets re-built every Monday, the “where’s that doc?” Slack message that adds up to 45 minutes a day per knowledge worker.

You can’t see it because no one logs it. It hides in plain sight.

This audit makes it visible. In 25 minutes. With your own data.

How to use it: read the five hiding places below, then fill in the worksheet. Your number — and what to do about it — appear automatically.

01 · The five hiding places

Five places automatable work hides in every business we audit.

Read these, then take 10 quiet minutes with the worksheet below. Most teams find the first 10 hours just from category 01 alone.

01

The Copy-Paste Tax

Why it hides
No one calls "moving a row from one tool to another" work. It looks like nothing. Until you sum it.
Real example
CSV from Stripe → Airtable → email summary to founder. 12 minutes, three times a week. 36 min/wk × 52 = 31 hours/year, per task.
Audit prompt
List every place data moves from one system to another by hand. Even small ones.
02

Triage & Routing

Why it hides
It's a "judgement call" so it feels human-only. Often, 80% of it is rule-based.
Real example
Sales lead arrives → someone reads it → assigns to AE → adds tag in CRM. 4 min × 30 leads/day = 2 hours/day, every day.
Audit prompt
List every "I look at this and decide where it goes" task.
03

Recurring Reports & Dashboards

Why it hides
It's "just Monday." But Monday repeats 52 times.
Real example
Weekly KPI roll-up rebuilt by hand from 4 tools. 90 min × 52 = 78 hours/year.
Audit prompt
List every report someone rebuilds on a schedule.
04

First-Draft Writing

Why it hides
It feels creative. The first 60% almost never is.
Real example
Proposal first drafts from a template + 3 inputs. Currently 90 min each, ~6/wk. With AI: 15 min each. Reclaims 7.5 hrs/week.
Audit prompt
List every recurring written deliverable that starts from a familiar shape.
05

"Where's That Doc?" Searches

Why it hides
It happens in DMs and personal memory, not in tickets.
Real example
12 "do we have a deck on X?" Slack messages a day across a team of 10 = 45 min/person/day, conservatively.
Audit prompt
Estimate "where is X?" requests across your team in the last 7 days.

02 · The worksheet

Now sum your own. Be honest.

One row per task. If AI could do at least 70% of it, tick the box. The total updates as you type — your recommendation appears below the moment you cross a threshold.

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Hours/week you could reclaim

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03 · Your result

What that number means.

BandTight shipUnder 5 hrs/week

Your number

0hrs/week

Honestly? You probably don't need us yet.

You're running lean. Pick up our three free n8n templates that handle the most common items at this scale and re-run the audit in 90 days. Come back when the number doubles.

04 · What to do next

Four ways forward. The one for you is highlighted.

Every option below is a real path. We highlight the one that fits your number — but if you want to pick a different one, that’s up to you.

Path A — DIY

Do it yourself.

Three free n8n templates plus the Tech Academy intro cohort. You'll be shipping inside two weekends.

Browse the Academy

Path B — Strategy Sprint

Get a roadmap, build it later.

Two weeks, fixed price. We audit your stack and hand you a ranked, scoped, costed roadmap. Build it yourself or with us.

Book a strategy call

Path C — Build

We build it.

Single fixed-scope engagement, 4–6 weeks. Production-grade. Code you own. Built so your future team can take it over.

Scope my build

Path D — Embed

Senior team inside your org.

Monthly retainer. Dedicated builders, weekly cadence, quarterly strategy reviews. For when AI is a capability, not a project.

Discuss embedding

05 · One more thing

Want us to walk through your filled-in audit on a 30-min call?

No pitch. We’ll spend the time on your actual list and tell you which items to do yourself, which to wait on, and which we’d build first if we were in your seat.

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