Free tool · 5 minutes with your note
Turn the note you kept this week into numbers. For each type of task and each language, enter how many things AI handed you that you used as is, how many you redid, and how many you threw out. The tally gives back your numbers, what each task type is telling you, and your first change. Just one.
This tool adds up and reads. How to name your task types, how to rewrite an instruction based on what you keep changing, and how to tell when something is ready to become a template are all in the guide.
A draft is anything AI hands back when you ask it for something: a post, an email, a reply to a customer, website copy, part of a proposal, a summary. If you ask for the same thing again, that's a new draft with its own letter. An answer you only read to inform yourself doesn't count.
Torn between U and R? If it took you more than a minute or you changed what it says, it's an R. Torn between R and T? If anything from that draft made it into what you sent, it's an R. If you asked for several versions of the same thing, each one gets its own letter based on what you did with it: the one you sent as it came is a U, the one you edited is an R, the one you discarded is a T, or an R if any of it made it into what you sent.
Enter how many drafts of each letter every task type has, in each language. Anything you leave blank counts as zero. Whole numbers only.
You haven't checked a task type in step 3 yet.
Your first change
How to name your task types, how to rewrite the instruction based on what you keep changing, when something is ready to be a template, and what to do in week two are all in the guide How to Subtract: What to Stop Asking AI For. It comes on WhatsApp when you send the word.
Your tally is already above. If you'd like, we'll email you your first change, dated today, so you can compare when you count again next week. It's a short series of emails on this topic, and every one has a one-click unsubscribe link. What travels is your reading (your numbers and the letter for each task type, your first change and your total drafts). The name you gave "Other" stays here: the email just says "Other."
Nothing you type here is sent anywhere or saved in your browser: it lives only in this tab and disappears when you close it. The only thing that travels, if you ask for it, is your reading, to your inbox.
These are our rules, written out here so you can check them. Each task type is read on its own, and so is each language.
What this tally doesn't measure: whether what you used as is was any good, how long it took you, or whether you sold more. A U only means you accepted it. That's why we don't give you a "good" share or compare you with anyone: your tally only gets compared with your own tally next week.
If customer replies in English read R, and what gets changed is the engine model or the day the boat goes up on the hard, the tally files it under "a fact AI doesn't have." That fact goes into the request, before AI writes anything.
If social posts in Spanish come out U and the English ones come out R, the language notice shows up: write the English instruction in English, not translated. And the Spanish ones are template candidates.
If the bio AI writes for them comes out T week after week, the tally doesn't ask for a better prompt. It asks them to stop requesting it and write the bio themselves, because that's where the difference is.
If you'd rather have company, we'll look at your tally on a free half-hour call, and you'll leave with the instruction worth changing first.
This tool comes from the October 21 article by Naty Ross and Todd Ross. The step-by-step guide comes on WhatsApp when you send KEPT.