Category: Software Decisions
When a paid plan is worth it, what to automate, and how to track work.
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Per Seat, Per Month, Per Year: Reading a SaaS Price Page Before You Commit
A pricing page is arranged so the smallest number is the one you see first. Here’s how to read the four places a SaaS plan costs money later — per-seat math, annual…
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Automations Fail Quietly: How to Build Ones You’ll Notice Breaking
Automations rarely announce their own failure. Here’s how to sort the ones that are safe to let break from the ones that need an explicit signal — and how to put that…
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The Automation Worth Wiring Up: A Test for Which Repetitive Tasks to Automate
Two questions decide whether a repetitive task is worth automating: how often it runs, and what it costs you the day it fails without telling anyone. A practical test, plus the handoffs…
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One List or a Board: How to Tell Which Task System Your Work Actually Needs
Pick a task tracker by the shape of your work, not by feature lists. Three shapes — a steady queue, staged work with handoffs, and deadline-driven projects with dependencies — and the…
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When a Free Plan Stops Being Free: The Four Limits That Force an Upgrade
Free tiers are built around four limits — seats, history retention, integrations, and export fidelity. Working out which one you’ll hit first tells you whether upgrading is worth it or whether you…