Replacing an ayi with design changes, machines, and a schedule you don't have to hold in your head. Check what you commit to — the ledger shows what it actually buys back.
Sequenced so the free stuff lands before the expensive stuff. Phase 1 removes work at the source — it costs almost nothing and makes every later machine work better. Don't buy the robot before the floor is clear for it.
After everything above is in place, roughly 3h 45m a week is still yours. This is where it goes. Every cadence hangs off something you already do — reminders get dismissed, sequences don't.
Skipped cadences are deleted, never accumulated. A missed weekly block does not become two weekly blocks. It becomes nothing. Debt is what turns a bad week into a bad month — the pile you come back to has to be the size of one session, or you won't start it.
Dropping to a lower mode is a state you select, not a failure you suffer. The system has four operating levels and three of them are degraded. That's the design, not the exception.
Capacity falls in this order, and it's decided in advance so you're not triaging while depleted. Things at the top compound — skip them and tomorrow gets harder. Things at the bottom are purely cosmetic and can go for weeks with no consequence.
Objective signals, so you notice you've dropped a level before the hole gets deep. Each one has a fixed response you decided on while you were fine.
| If you see this | You're at | Do exactly this |
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You cannot design a recovery while you're in the state that needs one. These are the decisions made in advance so that the depleted version of you has options instead of choices.
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The silent killer of these systems. A robot with a hair-wrapped brush cleans badly and you conclude the robot is bad. Run the whole table in one 30-minute block on the first Saturday of the month.
| Machine | Interval | What to actually do | Skipping it costs you |
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Running out of a $12 consumable is the most common reason one of these systems stalls for a month. Load this table into your inventory plugin with a due date per row, set to fire at the lead time rather than on empty.
| Item | Replace every | Reorder at | Keep on hand | Annual |
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