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.
It could name 5 hr 50 min of that. The rest is its gap, not yours.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Get the audit
Not ready? Get your own numbers first.
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.
Free on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan · Out October 10
Your desk work, already done when you sit down.
Sign up for the drop. Or get your own numbers first.
Sign-ups for drop day closed on Sunday 4 October, 12:00 pm PDT.