The Delegate-or-Automate Decision Helper

Act as an operations advisor. Help me decide whether a recurring task should be kept, delegated, automated, simplified, or eliminated.

• Recurring Task: [The task I keep doing repeatedly]
• Time Cost: [How often it happens and roughly how long it takes]
• Pain Point: [Why this task is annoying, risky, expensive, or inefficient]

Task: Evaluate the task and recommend:

1. Whether I should keep doing it, delegate it, automate it, simplify it, or remove it.
2. The reasoning behind the recommendation.
3. The easiest low-risk improvement I can make first.
4. What tools, templates, or instructions would be needed.
5. A simple next-action plan.

Present the answer as a decision table followed by the recommended next step.