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How the Workslop Cost & Verification-Tax Calculator gate works
How the Workslop Cost & Verification-Tax Calculator grades each team's AI-workslop verification cost per head and rolls the org up worst-not-average: one team leaking makes the whole org read SOME LEAKING, however low the blended number.
How the gate works
This tool grades each team's AI-workslop verification cost per head, rolled up worst-not-average. It reads 6 teams and rolls them into one verdict — the worst, never the average — and then a gate that can only make it worse.
The 6 teams
| Team | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Marketingfix first | LEAKING$1,436/mo · $120/head |
| Engineering | LEAKING$1,924/mo · $107/head |
| Customer Success | LEAKING$693/mo · $77/head |
| Finance | CONTAINED$240/mo · $40/head |
| Sales | CONTAINED$688/mo · $49/head |
| Ops | CONTAINED$123/mo · $15/head |
The verdict bands
The org verdict is the worst team's severity, never the average — one leaking team makes the whole org read SOME LEAKING even if the mean cost-per-head looks fine. A big low-cost team can't dilute a small team that's bleeding per person. The verdict is cost per head, not the raw total.
In the worked sample it reads SOME LEAKING — Six teams costed from their own inputs. Three are CONTAINED (Finance, Sales, Ops all under $50/head) and three are LEAKING (Marketing $120, Engineering $107, Customer Success $77 per head). No team is epidemic, but the org rollup takes the worst team, not the average — so the org reads SOME LEAKING, driven by Marketing at $120/head. Marked fix first on this sample: Marketing — highest cost per head at $120/mo. It's the team leaking the most verification tax per person, so it's where a fix returns the most; the average would have hidden it behind the contained teams.
Common questions
Can every team look survivable on the Workslop Cost & Verification-Tax Calculator and the company still read SOME LEAKING?
Yes. The roll-up takes the worst of 6 teams — never the average — then a worsen-only gate, the Worst-not-average gate, escalates when trouble clusters. In the worked sample it reads SOME LEAKING because six teams costed from their own inputs. Three are CONTAINED (Finance, Sales, Ops all under $50/head) and three are LEAKING (Marketing $120, Engineering $107, Customer Success $77 per head). No team is epidemic, but the org rollup takes the worst team, not the average — so the org reads SOME LEAKING, driven by Marketing at $120/head.
What is a worsen-only gate?
A rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One gate-triggering gap overrides an otherwise-set of survivable lines, because a single gate-triggering gap shouldn't hide behind an average of the healthy ones. Where something is short, the fix-first row names it — here, "Marketing — highest cost per head at $120/mo. It's the team leaking the most verification tax per person, so it's where a fix returns the most; the average would have hidden it behind the contained teams.".
A planning estimate from your own numbers — not accounting, tax, or financial advice, and it connects to nothing. It sizes a workflow problem across a team; it never scores, ranks, or names an individual.
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