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A practical guide to scoring tasks, interpreting automation exposure bands, calibrating self-assessments, and running a colleague review.
REDE (say 'ready') stands for Role Evaluation for Durability and Edge: a task-by-task look at your role that shows what is durable and where your edge is.
Score each task from 1 to 5 on every dimension. Lower totals indicate stronger human judgment and decision ownership.
V1
If the person doing this task left today, how much of the method could the next person execute from documented instructions?
Measures how completely the method can be expressed through documentation, rules, or formulas.
V2
How much of this task could someone from another organization do well, with no knowledge of your people, politics or history?
Measures how much success depends on local relationships, history, politics, and unwritten organizational knowledge.
V3
If this task is done badly, how easily could the mistake be caught and fixed?
Measures the severity, reversibility, and personal accountability attached to a realistic failure.
V4
How fixed is the format of the deliverable — is it negotiated fresh with stakeholders each time, or produced to a standing specification?
Measures whether the final deliverable is negotiated and bespoke or produced to a stable specification.
Score 4–8
Durable CapabilityHigh personal judgment and critical accountability make this work more durable as automation changes.
Score 9–14
Augmentable MultiplierStrategic synthesis & decision analysis: prime for human + AI collaboration.
Score 15–20
Vulnerable TaskProcedural templates & routine execution: target for delegation or redesign.
Automation Exposure Score = V1 + V2 + V3 + V4
Each task is classified from its Automation Exposure score using the fixed score bands above.
