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Skill: weak multiplier canvas

A zero-install tool for Chapter 11 and the "Transferability Canvas" appendix. It runs in your browser and sends no data anywhere. Code license: MIT.

This anchors the end of Volume 1. Your market value is the product of four multipliers: market x leverage x transferability x expertise. If one is close to zero, the total is also close to zero. A 90-day plan comes down to one question: which multiplier is closest to zero, and what single move can you make to raise it?

Open the tool

What it does

  • You score each multiplier from 0 to 3 with a slider.
  • The tool multiplies the scores instead of adding them and shows where your zero is, meaning the weakest multiplier.
  • It suggests one 90-day move for that multiplier and returns a result you can copy.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool and score all four multipliers against your current work.
  2. Add the move for the weakest multiplier to your 90-day plan from Chapter 11.
  3. You can tell an AI assistant: "Here is my weak multiplier and a draft move. Help me make it specific and testable within 90 days." Ask for options, not a finished plan.

Discipline

This is a priority filter, not an order to abandon everything and move into software. Meaning, care, and mastery for its own sake do not have to pass this filter. Leverage and transferability are often the weak points. The book asks you to stop selling only your time as output and start building something that owns the outcome and can work without you.

Chat version if you cannot use the browser tool

Copy this prompt into any AI chat, then assess your four multipliers.

Help me assess my market value through four multipliers from *When Intelligence Became Cheap*:
market x leverage x transferability x expertise. Multiply them rather than adding them. One multiplier
near zero brings the whole result close to zero.

- Market: is there demand for what I do, and how large is it?
- Leverage: does one hour multiply through software, an audience, or agents, or is it one hour for one hour?
- Transferability: does the result live separately from me as an asset, reputation, product, or code,
  or does its value disappear when I leave the desk?
- Expertise: how good am I within my field, even if that field is narrow?

Here is a short description of my current work and role: [describe your work]

Help me score each multiplier honestly from 0 to 3. You may ask follow-up questions. Multiply the
scores and name my "zero," meaning the weakest multiplier. Leverage and transferability are often weak,
but do not assume that they are. Ask when the answer is unclear. End with one specific 90-day move that
raises that multiplier. Give me one move, not a five-step plan.

Source worksheet: Weak Multiplier Canvas. Other tools: Prompts and Skills. Version: 2026-06-22.

Skill: weak multiplier canvas