What a Teardown looks like when it arrives
Two real ones below, both from Jake's own life, in the exact format yours arrives in. Five sections, every time: the task restated, what watches, what gets done, what you keep, and the number.
- Watches
- A scheduled job wakes up on booking-release mornings and checks your preferred courses for Saturday openings.
- Does
- It books the best available slot from your course tier list, inside a hard spending cap, skipping any Saturdays you've blocked, and writes every action to a log you can read.
- You keep
- The spending limit, the tier list, and the skip dates are rules the automation cannot override, and the log shows exactly what it booked and why. Jake runs this exact setup for his own Saturdays.
- Cost
- This fits inside a Personal Fleet setup, from $1,500 on accounts you own. A simpler version is a realistic Sit-Down project at $250 for two hours.
Worth automating, because it recurs every single week and the hard guardrails make it safe to run without you watching.
- Watches
- A weekly job runs before your planning day, checks your calendar for busy nights, and looks at what you've cooked recently.
- Does
- It drafts a week of dinners that fit your actual schedule, keeps quick meals on the packed nights, builds the grocery list, and sends both to you for a fast yes or a swap.
- You keep
- Nothing gets bought or ordered without you. You approve or edit the plan with a quick look, and your family's preferences live in a file you can change anytime.
- Cost
- A classic Sit-Down build. $250, two hours hands-on, and you leave with it running plus a plain-English cheat sheet.
Worth automating, because the thinking is the chore here, and this takes the thinking off your Sunday for good.
What the verdict section can say
Three outcomes, and you get exactly one of them in writing. Worth automating, with the build path and the price. Worth automating later, with what has to change first. Or not worth automating, with the arithmetic that says so. The third one costs us the sale and we send it anyway, because a plan you can trust is the product.
Your turn
Describe the task you dread and the written plan comes back within one business day.