buyback-rate¶

Computes the owner's Buy Back Rate — the dollar value of one hour of their time — then turns a two-week time-and-energy audit into a ranked list of exactly which tasks to offload first, routing each to AI/automation before a human hire. It is the quantitative front-end to delegation: delegation coaches the human handoff; this skill produces the number and the ranked target list that tell you what to hand off and to what.

Area: Foundational
Category: productivity
Level: beginner
Input: conversation
Output: document
Setup: none
Roles: CEO / Founder, Operations Manager

Computes your Buy Back Rate and turns a time-and-energy audit into a ranked 'offload this first' list — routing each task to automate-with-AI before hire.

How you ask¶

“What's my time worth”
“What should I stop doing”
“Buy back my time”

Inputs¶

income — Annual income basis = profit + owner salary + business expenses (the value the owner's 2,000 working hours produce).
time_log — A task time-log (manual table, or exported from ai-work-audit / time-tracking-reporter). One row per recurring task with rough weekly hours.
income — Income basis for the rate. If omitted, the audit reports relative ranking only (no dollar threshold).

Outputs¶

offload-report (markdown)
prefer a permanent directory)
rate-brief (markdown)