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worksheet · 5 questions

Name your single highest-ROI automation.

Five questions, five minutes. Answer them and you'll have named the one automation with the best payback in your business, before you spend a dollar building anything.

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The five questions

The whole scan, this is the worksheet, not a teaser.

  1. Q1
    What do you do most?

    The task you repeat every week without thinking.

  2. Q2
    What does it cost?

    Minutes × frequency × your loaded hourly rate.

  3. Q3
    How risky is a mistake?

    Low-risk tasks automate first.

  4. Q4
    Is the data ready?

    Structured input beats a heroic scrape.

  5. Q5
    What's the payback?

    Score each and rank, your top candidate falls out.

Built lean before lean was fashionable

We’ve built useful software against much bigger odds.

Nick Horob and Jaryd Krishnan built Harvest Profit into a leading farm-management software business with a six-person team and $280,000 in outside funding. They competed with companies employing 10 to 20× more people and, in some cases, raising roughly 100× more capital before John Deere acquired Harvest Profit in 2020.

Nerd Out carries forward the same belief: stay close to the problem, use technology well, and build genuinely useful products and businesses without a bloated team or budget.

Read Nick’s founder story ↗
$280K
raised
6-person
team
Acquired
by John Deere · 2020

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