Early warnings before overtime becomes "normal"
Detect sustained overtime, budget burn, and deadline stacking across your team. Produces a weekly capacity snapshot, flags risk, and drafts corrective actions — scope resets, staffing asks, or fee/variation language — before burnout and margin collapse set in.
Create a skill called "Capacity & Burnout Radar" for an architecture practice. Every week, I'll feed you timesheet totals, project budget status, and upcoming deliverable deadlines. You should: 1. Flag any team member who has exceeded target hours (default 40h) for 2+ consecutive weeks 2. Calculate each project's hours-to-fee burn rate and flag any project where burn exceeds 85% with more than 30% of schedule remaining 3. Detect deadline congestion: two or more immovable deliverables (DD packages, permit sets, addenda) within a 14-business-day window for the same team 4. Produce a one-page capacity brief listing the top 5 risks and a recommended intervention for each (scope reset, staffing ask, or fee adjustment) 5. Draft an internal staffing request and/or a client-facing scope/fee adjustment email template based on the findings Output the brief in a clean, scannable format I can forward directly.
This recipe turns scattered timesheets and project budgets into a weekly
early-warning system. It watches for overtime trends, budget burn rates, and
deadline congestion — then generates a one-page brief with risks and
recommended interventions so you can act before a problem becomes a crisis.
Change control without the awkward conversation
Converts "quick changes" into structured change requests with phase identification, impact scanning, a revision counter, and a client-ready memo showing time, fee, and schedule impact. Keeps the paper trail clean so you can protect your margins without policing every email.
Annual reporting without the scramble
Structures early-stage energy and carbon data collection and creates a DDx-ready summary package — including missing-data prompts, an assumptions audit trail, and a narrative for the reporting submission. Designed around the AIA 2030 Commitment framework.
Beat crit week without self-destruction
A student-focused workflow that counters all-nighter culture. Timeboxing, deliverable prioritization, critique capture templates, and recovery scheduling — built around the reality that studio norms normalize unhealthy workloads.
Stay consistent without burning out
A sustainability planner that turns your posting goals into a realistic weekly system: batching, boundaries, recovery time, and "minimum viable consistency." It identifies burnout triggers (over-posting, over-editing, constant checking) and replaces them with guardrails, reusable templates, and a low-friction routine.