founder-capacity-diagnostic

List your recurring tasks with hours per week, marking which only you can do and which drain versus energize you. The diagnostic plots each task on a strategic-vs-operational and only-founder-vs-delegable grid, then recommends delegation, automation, outsourcing, or hiring per task.

Hiring is the last resort. The skill applies a cheapest-sufficient-lever ordering: delegate to a competent existing person first, automate recurring rule-based tasks, outsource specialized intermittent work, and hire only when a durable volume or capability gap remains.

Severity combines average decision wait days, single-point-of-failure count, discretionary-time gap, and quality-of-life rating. Severity is high when decisions wait more than 3 days, SPOF count is high, or quality of life is rated 2 or below.

A single point of failure is any critical task only the founder can do with no documented backup. These are flagged as business-continuity risks even when the founder is not overloaded, with recommendations to document and cross-train.

Do not use it to construct a specific delegation (use delegation-planner), decide headcount affordability (use hiring-plan-builder), redesign the whole org (use organizational-design), or assess a non-founder employee's overload.