The Short Version · 1 min read
You open last month's report to use as a template again — same numbers to find, same formatting to redo, same hour disappearing before you've written a single insight.
It happens to almost everyone who owns a recurring report: a rate summary, a board memo, a weekly rollup. The actual thinking — what changed, what it means — takes ten minutes. The other fifty go to finding the numbers, matching last month's format, and making sure nothing's out of place. You've done this exact assembly so many times it barely registers as work anymore. It's just what Tuesday looks like.
“The insight is yours. The formatting doesn't have to be.”
Next time you sit down to rebuild it, time the assembly separately from the thinking. If the assembly takes longer, that's the part worth handing off first — to a template, a script, or a prompt that knows your format. The insight is yours. The formatting doesn't have to be.
