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How many decisions a day do your agents hand you?

Three numbers in. Out comes your decision count, the hours it eats, and which part of your loop it lands in. Everything runs in this page, nothing is sent anywhere.

Your setup

Threads, workflows or subagents you have going on a normal working day.
Every time a thread comes back and you have to read, steer or approve.
Count the context switch. Reading yourself back into a thread is part of the check.

Your decision load: an example

Decisions a day 36 12 threads × 3 checks. Each one is a context switch.
Attention a day 2h 24m 12h 00m across a five day week.
Your day, one square per decision

Every filled square is one moment your day stops and waits for you. Outlined squares are the checks that would still fit in an eight hour day.

Against an eight hour day 30%

A visible slice of the day goes to deciding. Worth knowing which part of the loop takes it.

Split across your loop
Where it landsShareCountPer day
Start direction20%728m
Middle corrections30%1144m
End approvals50%181h 12m

Where your checks land

Almost nobody sits evenly in their loop. Move the weights until the split matches yours.

You write the brief and send the thread off.
You steer, correct and answer questions while the work runs.
You test it, approve it and judge whether it is good enough.
Start from a shape

The part of the job that fills up

Execution stopped being the ceiling. You can run ten threads or fifty, and all of them come back to the same person. The queue that fills up is the attention of whoever has to say yes, no, or try again.

That is why this tool asks where your checks land. The same count of decisions lands differently depending on which part of the loop it arrives in.

Start: direction

You write the brief, pick the approach, send the thread off. Cheap per decision, and the one place where a few minutes of thinking removes work later.

Middle: corrections

The thread asks something, or goes sideways and you catch it. These arrive on the agent's schedule, which is what makes them expensive even when they are quick.

End: approvals and quality

You test it, judge it, approve it. One of these is nothing. Fifty of them is a week that felt like meetings.

You can hand decisions to agents too, and I hand over a lot. No matter what workflow you build, sooner or later the agent comes back and you have to do something.

Pawel Jozefiak, in the post this tool came out of

If your number came out higher than you expected, the write up behind this page is the long version: four months of running a swarm of agents, the week it stopped being fun, and what the work looks like when deciding is the whole job.

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