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The audit

The fourteen-day desk audit, before you pay anything.

Octopus measures your own Mac for two weeks and hands you a list of what actually recurred — in minutes and occurrences, not impressions.

Today’s recordAbout 6 hr 40 min on record

It could name 5 hr 50 min of that. The rest is its gap, not yours.

  • Reconciling2 hr 10 min · 14 occurrences
  • Reading1 hr 20 min · 9 occurrences
  • Writing back1 hr 25 min · 7 occurrences
  • Filing55 min · 11 occurrences
  • Not sorted yet50 min · 4 occurrences
How minutes were counted, and what a 5-minute gap means.

Minutes are the time a kind of work held the front window, rounded to five. A gap is time it could not name. It is listed, not filled in.

Today’s record · About 6 hr 40 min

It could name 5 hr 50 min of that. The rest is its gap, not yours.

  • Reconciling2 hr 10 min · 14 occurrences
  • Writing back1 hr 25 min · 7 occurrences
  • Reading1 hr 20 min · 9 occurrences
  • Filing55 min · 11 occurrences
  • Not sorted yet50 min · 4 occurrences
How minutes were counted, and what a 5-minute gap means →

Founders underestimate their own admin time by 35 to 50 percent against what they actually log. Asking yourself is not a measurement. Two weeks of your own record is.

  • 14 daysof your own Mac, measured
  • 35–50%underestimate, founders vs. their own log
  • $0charged. Content-free by construction.

How it runs

Two weeks. Then a list.

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  1. Day 1

    Install together, about 45 minutes

    By hand, for now. There is no notarized build yet — it says so on the What’s wrong page.

  2. Days 2–14

    It reads and counts. Nothing leaves.

    The focused window, as text, when macOS says something changed. A hash of a kind of work, and minutes. Never a title, a name, or a pixel.

  3. Day 14

    You get the list

    What recurred, in minutes and occurrences. Then you decide about a seat. Or you don’t, and the record stays yours.

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Tell us what your week looks like and we’ll send you the fourteen-day audit when the next cohort opens. No charge, no seat held.

In a normal week, roughly how many minutes go to each of these?

Free on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan · Out October 10

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