Capacity & Lead-Time Planner
Two numbers decide whether your delivery dates are commitments or hopes — derive both, defend both, and know in advance the week you must stop selling.
What it is
Replaces the two numbers that quietly run most delivery businesses — a capacity figure nobody derived and a lead time invented in the sales call. Subtracts everything unbillable, names the constraint instead of averaging it away, turns queue and throughput into a date that survives the month, then installs the booking rules, the reserve, the waitlist and the thresholds that fire before the schedule breaks. For studios, workshops, agencies, clinics, trades and practices that sell capacity and are late in a way nobody can explain.
What you receive
an honest answer to how much work you can take and when it will be done — the true capacity number per person and per resource after everything unbillable, the named bottleneck, the lead-time quote you can keep, the booking rules that protect the schedule, the waitlist that holds demand honestly, and the triggers that say raise prices, stop selling, or hire
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how many projects can my team actually take on”
- “how do i calculate realistic lead times for clients”
- “we keep promising delivery dates we cant hit”
- “when should i stop taking work or hire someone”
- “how to work out billable capacity per person per week”
Record
lineage: first-party house build
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.