Prompt Debt Collector – Calculator

Symbolic ‘debt collector’ made of receipts gently vacuuming glowing tokens from tangled conversation wires on a desk.
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Most “prompting” is unpaid debugging; this tool turns that into a number. Enter your weekly workload; get Prompt Debt Index, token waste, and $/week burn.

Use the receipt to run a 7-day follow-up; if savings aren’t ≥50% of the estimate, the claim is false.

Prompt Debt Collector — calculator

Audit the hidden cost of re-prompts, restarts, and failures. Export a receipt you can verify and improve next week.
Wrongable by design
Method: productive = messages × minutes. Waste = (extra + restarts×messages) × minutes + (fail rate × minutes per failed task). Token waste uses wasted-message tokens only. Falsifier: If a 7-day follow-up shows less than half of the predicted savings at the same inputs, the claim is false.
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