The finding01 / 05
We measured ourselves first.
It was worse than we thought.
We put our forward deployed agent on 4 of our own machines — recruiting, client success and the founder's desk — and recorded 3 weeks of real work. Every application, every browser tab, every copy and paste. No surveys.
168 hrs / mo
= one full-time employee of repetitive work, spread across 4 people. You already employ the 5th person. You just can't see them.
~2,300
copy-pastes into AI tools across the team — context shuttled by hand between Slack, Gmail, the ATS and the models
~25,500
app switches measured — one every 75 seconds of work
2,400+
AI sessions already running — every one of them fed by hand
fda — forward deployed agent reportpage 1 of 5