Example · For the owner
Have you ever reached Friday to find your top priority got two hours?
You named three priorities in January. By March, client calls and supplier problems own the calendar.
Who it's for
- You set a few clear priorities each year, and you mean them.
- Win two new accounts. Hire a manager. Fix the margin on one product line.
- Then each week fills with whatever arrives first.
When we'd say skip it
Already check your calendar against your goals weekly? Keep doing that. Most work happens off the calendar? It would see too little.
Where the priority loses its hours
- Priority named
- Block set aside
- Week fills up
- Block moved
- Block deleted
- Priority gets no time
Nothing breaks. The block you set for hiring moves once, then again.
Client calls and internal meetings fill the gaps. The priority just gets none of the time.
In professional services, it's business development. In manufacturing, it's the new line. In an accounting practice, it's the advisory work.
We'd build a weekly time check.
One short page each Friday sets your week beside the priorities you chose.
You see the week as it went
- Where your time went, in a few plain groups.
- How many hours each named priority received.
- Which blocks you set for a priority moved or vanished.
- You decide what to change. Nobody grades you.
What it's worth: your top priority's hours
Name your top priority this year. Write down what it's worth if it happens.
Now guess the hours it got last month. If the honest count is under five, one page a week earns its place.
Sample output · weekly time check · 7 to 11 April
4 groups, 27 hours on the calendar
| Group | Hours | Last month |
|---|---|---|
| Priority: win two new accounts | 2 | 3 a week |
| Priority: hire an operations manager | 0 | 1 a week |
| Internal meetings | 14 | 9 a week |
| Client calls | 11 | 11 a week |
Thursday's hiring block moved twice, then was deleted. Calendar only: work off the calendar isn't counted.
How it runs, every step
Open the full run
When it runs
Once a week, with the page ready at the end of Friday.
What it reads
Your calendar. Optionally, your sent mail, to see where effort goes.
The five steps
- You name up to three priorities, in your own words.
- It groups meetings and blocks by topic and by priority.
- It notes blocks set for a priority that later moved or disappeared.
- One page arrives at the end of the week.
- You correct any grouping, and it learns your calendar.
Where a person decides
You decide what, if any, changes.
What it never does
It never moves or declines a meeting. It never scores you. It never shows your page to another person.
What we'd need from you
Your priorities, a sentence each. Read-only access to your calendar, once you decide to go ahead.
Neighbours it often comes with
- Routines quietly lapsing, like the monthly review that stopped happening.
- Parked decisions that have come due.
- People waiting on your decision.
You become the owner who spends time on what matters most.
Your week goes to the things you chose, and Friday holds no surprises.
Yours won't look exactly like this. A first conversation is where we work out what it should look like.
Next step
Count it with us first.
One conversation, about an hour, with one of our co-founders. It's free and needs no access.
Every message is read by a person, with a reply most often inside one working day.