Pick your first AI job
What decision this helps you make. Which AI job to start first. What you walk away with. Your jobs on a value and effort chart, the one we'd start with and why, ready to print or save as a PDF. Run it again every 90 days.
List 3 to 10 jobs where work gets dropped, redone or delayed. For each one, add the hours it costs and how hard it would be to start. You'll see your jobs on a 2x2 chart, the one we'd start with, and why.
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Pick your first AI job · drag6.com/resources/first-ai-job · Printed Oct 14, 2026
What decision this helps you make. Which AI job to start first. What you walk away with. Your jobs on a value and effort chart, the one we'd start with and why, ready to print or save as a PDF. Run it again every 90 days.
1. How many people work at your company?
We use this to put a dollar figure on the time each job costs. It changes the dollars, not the order of your jobs.
Where these numbers come from
Each figure is what one hour a week of one person's time costs a company in a year, pay plus benefits. It's the cost of one hour of work × 48 working weeks.
1 to 49 workers: $37.64 × 48 = $1,806.72, about $1,807. 50 to 99: $41.03 × 48 = $1,969.44, about $1,969. 100 to 499 workers: $47.96 × 48 = $2,302.08, about $2,302. 500 or more: $67.68 × 48 = $3,248.64, about $3,249.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, Table 6, June 2026, released Sep 9, 2026. (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t06.htm). BLS counts workers per worksite. 48 working weeks is our estimate: 52 weeks minus about 4 for holidays and time off.
2. List the jobs
Think of one team and one normal week. Where did work get dropped, redone or delayed? Each of those is a possible AI job. Add at least 3 and up to 10.
- Dropped means work fell through the cracks, like a follow-up nobody sent.
- Redone means work got done twice, like typing the same numbers into two systems.
- Delayed means work had to wait, like a customer waiting for an answer because the one person who knows is busy.
Pick your company size in step 1.