THE PROFITABLE-BUT-HUNGRY AUDIT  —  cut the drag (after a rule proves it)
From "The One-Person AI Business — Advanced", Chapter 8
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An activity can be PROFITABLE in cash and still DRAG your leverage ratio down —
earning below your average per hour and, worse, starving the compounding levers
of the hours they need. Cash hides the drag. But "below the ratio" is NOT, by
itself, a reason to kill — cut good cash flow blindly and you bleed. This runs
the rule that proves it.


STEP 1 · SCORE EVERY ACTIVITY BY REVENUE-PER-HOUR
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  Use RECURRING hours only (the same denominator as your leverage ratio); one-time
  build hours are a separate investment and never go here.
  Activity                    Net revenue/mo   Recurring hours/mo   £/hour
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  _________________________   £__________      ____                 £____
  _________________________   £__________      ____                 £____
  _________________________   £__________      ____                 £____
  My blended leverage ratio:  £______/hour
  The activity that PAYS but DRAGS (below the ratio): ______________


STEP 2 · STAGE ONE — RESCUE FIRST
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Can you raise it TO your ratio, or productise it so it stops costing recurring
hours?
  [ ] Reprice toward £______/hour — customers accept?      yes / no
  [ ] Productise it (see the judgement planner)?           yes / no
  If either works, the drag is CURED — nothing to cut.


STEP 3 · IS IT SECRETLY WORTH KEEPING?  (don't kill blindly)
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Keep a low-ratio activity if, with NUMBERS:
  [ ] It FEEDS higher-ratio work (leads/referrals) — attributed downstream
      revenue: £______  → true return clears the ratio?
  [ ] It's strategically load-bearing (credibility/access) — the value shows on
      OTHER lines: ______________
  [ ] The freed hours have NO better home (below-ratio work beats idle time).
  If any of these is true and supported by evidence → KEEP it, reclassified honestly (e.g. as
  "acquisition"), and measure it on THAT scoreboard.


STEP 4 · STAGE TWO — KILL (only if rescue failed AND hours have a named use)
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The freed hours must have a specific, evidenced, higher-leverage home. "I'll cut
it and see" = an empty calendar and less money.
  The higher-leverage use for the hours: ______________________
  15 hours ≈ one productised asset every ~6 weeks, OR a sustainable give-first
  cadence — the things that compound.


THE FORCING COMMITMENT  (dated)
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  "________ earns £__/hour, below my ratio of £__. Rescue: [reprice / productise]
   → [worked / failed]. Keep-check: [downstream £__ / none]. If cut: by [date],
   with [notice], freed ____ hrs → ____________ (named use), not more of the same.
   What would change my mind: rescue succeeding, or no named use."

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