The Automation Priority Worksheet
Score every repetitive task by time, error cost and difficulty, and get a ranked list of what to automate this month.
Published Aug 30, 2026
Preview
Most "what should I automate" advice tells you to automate lead response. Sometimes that's right. This guide gives you an arithmetic method to find out for your business in one week, using a five-day log and a three-number score, and ends with a ranked shortlist of three things you can actually build in the next 30 days.
The short answer
Automate the task that is frequent, expensive when it goes wrong, and already has a fixed set of steps. Frequency gives you payback. Error cost gives you urgency. Fixed steps make it buildable this month instead of next quarter.
That is where the free part ends.
The rest walks the whole thing through, step by step — including the parts people get wrong and what to do when the normal route fails.