Value metrics — the receipts page (plain-English version)¶

What it is¶

A dashboard that answers one question: was WorkWingman actually worth it? It counts what the app really did during your job hunt — applications driven, minutes of automation work, responses that came back, study resources you opened — and turns that into numbers you can show someone else.

Why it exists¶

Two reasons:

For you. Job hunting is demoralizing. Seeing "12 applications submitted, about 3–5 hours of form-filling avoided this week" is real, earned momentum.
For the product. The owner's own job hunt is the case study. When WorkWingman says it saves time, the receipts on this page are the proof — measured, not made up.

How "time saved" is calculated (and why you can trust it)¶

The app times its own automation work per application — and it stops the clock whenever it pauses to wait for you (like a "create your account first" wall). Leaving a run paused overnight adds nothing to the numbers.
That measured time is compared to how long the same application would take by hand. Those hand-timings start as estimates (clearly labeled), and become your own measurements once you time yourself doing a few real manual applications — there's a form on the page for that.
The page always shows a range ("saved 2.0–4.0 hours"), leads with the smaller number, and a little ⓘ explains the whole formula. Failed runs count against the app, not for it.

What about study tracking — is it watching me?¶

No. A click on a study link inside the app is counted as "you opened a resource" — never as study time. If you want study time tracked, you start a timer or type it in yourself, and self-reported time is kept in its own column. The app never looks at your browser history, never watches your screen, never guesses. Everything on this page is computed on your machine and stays there.

Why it won't turn you into a spam cannon¶

There's a famous management paper about systems that reward the easy-to-count thing while hoping for the thing that actually matters (Kerr's "On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B"). A job-hunt dashboard that celebrates raw application count would do exactly that — pay you to spray weak applications at poor-fit jobs. So this page deliberately doesn't:

The headline number only counts qualified applications — ones you submitted where the fit analysis rated the job a genuinely good match. Spraying low-fit jobs doesn't move it.
"Time saved" only counts on those qualified applications. Automating an application that shouldn't exist saves nothing, and the page says so.
Jobs you analyzed and chose not to pursue are celebrated as good judgment, not counted as failure. Saying no is part of a good job hunt.
Application volume never appears without responses, interviews, and offers next to it.

Where to find it¶

Sidebar → Value metrics (under Applied & interviews). It fills itself in as you use the app — scrapes, runs, and study clicks all land in a local log automatically.