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Hidden value check
Paste a job, step or rule you want to cut or automate. Get what it quietly does besides the obvious task.
Hidden value check is a free AI skill for the job "Think it through and decide". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
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What it does
Before cutting a step to save time or money, we list what it was meant to do. We rarely list what it does besides. A handwritten thank-you note is meant to say thanks, but it also tells the customer someone cared enough to spend time. A slow sign-up step is meant to collect an email, but it also filters out people who would never buy. This skill names the job in its simplest form, lists everything it does that nobody wrote down, and asks who benefits from each hidden part and how. It asks what would break or be lost if the job went and checks whether a long-standing habit has a reason you do not know yet. It prices the hidden value as best it can and ends with cut, keep, or cut and replace the hidden parts.
You give it
- The job, step or rule, described in plain words
- Why you want to cut or automate it
- Who does it and who sees the result
- How long it has existed (optional)
- Plan (optional)
You get
- The job in its simplest form
- A list of hidden parts, each with who gains
- What would break if it went, and an estimated cost
- A decision: cut, keep or replace
Use it when
- You plan to automate a manual step and want to know what you would lose.
- A rule feels pointless and you are about to remove it.
- A cost-cutting list has items that look wasteful but have been there for years.
How to use it
- Start a chat with the skill. Open it if you added it to your AI, or copy it and paste it in.
- Describe the job and say why you want to cut it.
- Say who does it, who receives it and how long it has been done.
- Read the hidden parts first. Add any you know that it missed.
- If the answer is replace, act on the named replacement first, then cut.