Field assignment 09
Put a daily dollar figure on one status-quo. Score your hottest lead on the Zombie Scorecard; send the Breakup Email if it's a zombie.
File to your dossier ⌁ Have GHOST push back
GHOST reviews the answer in-character (“that's a vitamin, not a tourniquet — find the bleeding neck”). Your text is sent to the Claude API for the reply only; it is never stored server-side.
The math for this assignment
Legacy Liability L_legacy · Ch 9P × (1+r)^t. The cheapest option always looks expensive today. Show them what doing nothing costs.
▸ MegaCorp one-sheet ($12,290/day)
Result $5.48M/yr
Doubles in 4.4 years. That's $15,017/day of inaction — the fire under the chair.
⌁ ask GHOST what this number means for me
Self-Funding Coefficient S_fc · Ch 9(Human cost − AI cost) ÷ pilot cost. Above 10 the CFO is negligent not to buy.
Result 8.00
Pays for itself. Pitch the CFO.
⌁ ask GHOST what this number means for me
Vaporware Index I_v · Ch 10Adjectives in the pitch ÷ live demo minutes. Works both ways — score yourself.
Result 2.50
Software, not slides. Proceed.
⌁ ask GHOST what this number means for me From the module
ZERO dumps the 22-slide deck at slide 3 and hands CFO Richard Park one sheet: cost of inaction, $12,290/day, $4.49M/yr. "Why hasn't anyone shown me this before?" Then FutureCorp inbound — buzzword soup, Zombie Score 0. She sends the Breakup Email; three days later the real VP calls, Score 59.
Re-read Calculus for Cowards & The Qualification Protocol →