The Delete Pass · Tare Kill List

Section 1 · Recurring dollars

The subscription stack

Ground truth from the Pinnacle transaction log (shadow bookkeeping), April 1 to July 12. Software plus professional overhead runs about $930/month. Roughly $700/month of it is deletable or replaceable. Rent, loan, utilities, payroll, and inventory vendors are excluded — those are the engine, not parts.

#	Part	≈ Monthly	Verdict	What breaks if it stops
1	CPA — Hunter Feinberg 4 payments · $434 avg · Legal & Professional	$579	Replace	Nothing that isn't already planned. Shadow bookkeeping runs nightly; the CPA replacement plan exists. Needs a year-end tax filing answer before the final cut. Biggest single dollar on this page: ~$6,900/yr.
2	Webflow (legacy) not on Pinnacle — annual or other card, verify source	est. $23–49	Cancel	Nothing. Site fully on Cloudflare Pages since the migration; "kept temporarily" was the memo, and temporarily is over. Verify billing source, export any leftovers, cancel.
3	SmartCredit $29.99 × 4	$30	Cancel	Credit-score monitoring stops. Free monitoring (bank, Credit Karma) covers the same need; pull a fresh report only when a lender asks.
4	Manychat $16.46 × 4 · IG auto-DM	$20	Cancel	IG keyword auto-replies stop — but the social content system was retired June 25. A subscription serving a deleted system. Verify no live flow, then cancel.
5	Squarespace $17.18 × 4 · likely domain registrations	$21	Replace	Identify what's on it. If it's domains, transfer to Cloudflare Registrar (at-cost renewals, everything already lives there) and close the account.
6	Wispr $15.00 × 3 · voice dictation	$15	Decide	Dictation app stops. Only you know if you actually use it — if you hesitate to answer, that's the answer.
7	OpenAI $19.60 × 7 · icon-gen uses gpt-image-1	$42	Decide	Check what this is. If a ChatGPT subscription: cancel, keep pay-per-use API credits for icon-gen. The 327-icon almanac library is already built; new icons are occasional, not monthly.
8	QuickBooks Online $41.71 × 3	$42	Keep · next domino	Books of record, keep until the CPA replacement lands. Shadow bookkeeping was built to make this deletable in a later pass.
9	Klaviyo $102.43 × 3	$102	Keep · but use it	This is the retention engine and retention is the constraint. The offense here isn't the bill, it's paying it while the First Visit Retention flow sits at 0 sends ever. Turn the flow on or the $102 buys nothing.
—	Keepers Canva $22 · Spotify $14 · Cloudflare $14 · Apple ~$29	~$79	Keep	Brand kit work is active, the store needs music, Workers Paid runs the whole stack, Apple is mixed personal. Not worth the motion.

If 1–5 are approved: roughly $650–680/month (~$8,000/year) comes off, most of it from executing the CPA replacement you already planned. Items 6–7 add up to ~$57/month more pending your answer. SOURCE: TXN_LOG, APR 1–JUL 12

Section 2 · Machinery

Crons, workers, and flows — the invisible part count

The stack runs 4 Cloudflare cron triggers, 16 GitHub Actions schedules, 2 cloud routines, and 11 workers. Most earn their keep. These don't.

#	Part	Verdict	What breaks if it stops
10	Duplicate label-refresh routine two identical cloud routines · both Mon 6:13am	Delete one	Nothing — the April 23 and June 30 routines are the same job. Today it double-runs weekly and would email you twice on failure. Delete one at claude.ai/code/routines (I can't delete routines, only you can). Clear the 8 spent one-shot tests while you're there.
11	bintender-threshold-sweep GitHub Action · every 15 min · ~2,900 runs/mo	Cut to hourly	Threshold alerts arrive up to an hour later instead of 15 minutes. Bins don't empty minute-by-minute; hourly deletes ~96% of the runs and most of the Actions-minutes bill risk on a private repo.
12	o3-report-check workflow GitHub Action · 6×/day weekdays	Delete	Nothing. The worker already runs the same idempotent check twice daily (midnight + 9:15am safety re-run). This is a third belt on two suspenders.
13	mwco-api daily cron Cloudflare · 5am daily · mwco isn't launched	Delete trigger	Daily studio scaffolding for a site that isn't live stops. Bonus: frees 1 of the account's 5 cron slots — the exact cap that forced 20+ jobs to pile onto tare-api's midnight cron.
14	tare-reviews-sync worker · pending Google OAuth since Jun 15	Fix or delete	It's been fetching nothing for a month — the reviews grid is frozen either way. Do the one-time OAuth this week or delete the worker. A zombie is worse than either.
15	Idle workers & databases tare-dashboard · tare-hq worker · dickson-log · littermap (+2 D1s) · mwco-subscribe	Verify → delete	tare-dashboard untouched since Mar 11, tare-hq worker since Feb 25 (HQ serves from Pages), littermap has two orphan databases. I check each for live traffic first; anything at zero gets deleted with a D1 export kept.
16	Dead cron branch in worker.js */2 narrative-drain · not in wrangler.toml · never fires	Delete code	Nothing — it's unreachable. Pure part-count reduction.
17	Klaviyo dead drafts + legacy flows 2 unconfigured drafts · 1 draft from 2023 · 2 live check-in flows	Clean + audit	Deleting the three dead drafts breaks nothing. The two live legacy flows (Quarterly + Yearly Customer Check In) predate the retention work — I pull their send/conversion numbers and anything at zero impact gets archived.
18	Daily content drips x-daily-prompts · story-studio · new-product-notify · bintender-digest ×2/day	60-day test	Each sends you something daily. The question for each: when did its output last change what you did? Answer honestly per item; anything you can't recall acting on in 60 days gets switched off. Expect to miss (and re-add) about one in ten — that's the sign you cut deep enough.

Section 3 · The store

Physical parts: SKUs and vendors

This is where deletion pays most. Every SKU is a label, a reorder check, a shelf-life watch, a cleaning motion, and a catalog row. Every vendor is a cheat sheet, an email template, an invoice quirk, and an ordering-day decision.

Corrected July 12 (evening): the first version of this page claimed 226 zero-sellers and a 45% dead catalog. That was the archived-items trap — 199 of those "zero sellers" were Square items you already archived, counted as unsold because they can never sell. Against the true active catalog of 477 over a fairer 90-day window: 12 zero-sellers, 29 with nothing sold in 30 days, 28 barely moving — about 8% dead, not 45%. The shelf is much healthier than the old report said, and the fix is an afternoon, not a project. Full list: zero-velocity report. SOURCE: /ANALYTICS/SLOW-MOVERS?DAYS=90, ARCHIVED EXCLUDED

#	Move	Verdict	Detail
19	90-day zero-velocity cut	Run it	Done — and it shrank. The 90-day report (archived items excluded) found 12 true zero-sellers, not ~100: full report with the 30-day tab. Clearance-basket the 12 (the 4 chicken cuts first need a freezer-stock check), then delete labels + catalog rows. The 28 barely-movers are the watch list for the next pass.
20	Archive dead vendors	Archive 4 now	Butterfly Bakery, Jamie's Farm, Raw Love, Sipima — last invoices June 2024. Archive the vendor rows and delete their cheat sheets, templates, and reminders. Then adopt the standing rule: no order in 120 days → auto-archive (about 10 more vendors are approaching it; supply vendors get a longer leash).
21	Vendor row dedup	Hygiene	Duck River Honey ×2, Sunnyside Eggs ×2, plus junk "Tare/TARE" rows. Merge so invoices and reminders stop splitting across twins.

Section 4 · Paused & proposed parts

Kill or ship — stop carrying

A blocked project isn't paused, it's a part you're paying attention-rent on. Each of these gets one of two outcomes this week: a shipping decision or a formal park (memory line + review date, out of the working set).

#	Part	Verdict	The decision
22	Weekly interview loop blocked on 2 UI fixes · 4 test routines already run	Fix or kill	It's been blocked on your two fixes. Either they happen this week and the loop ships, or it's killed — with the Weekly Compass proposal covering the same need with less machinery.
23	Website mobile pass .pb-pill fix committed, HELD	Ship or drop	A committed fix sitting unshipped is the worst state — all the risk of change, none of the benefit. Standing rule says live = flawless on mobile, so the default is ship to staging, verify, publish.
24	Formal parks Refill Ops L2 · LitterGame · Mantel · hardware vision · agent swarm	Park with dates	Per the CEO brief: freeze Refill Ops L2, slow-burn Refill Map. Side quests and the idea board get park lines with review dates. Proposed parts follow the same rule as installed ones: the default answer is no part.
25	Brief kill list (already agreed) awareness gauge · CPA comparison report · 30-min stragglers batch	Execute	Named in the July 11 brief; this pass is the execution vehicle. The broken TOC awareness gauge (dead Meta metric) comes off the HQ card instead of lying to you at 512.

Not on the kill list, and the reason this page exists: the First Visit Retention flow. Deletion isn't the goal — attention is. Everything removed above is attention returned to the one part that pays ~$38k/quarter when it turns on. And the standing #1 from the brief still leads everything here: the /gmail/send auth hole gets fixed before any of this — 15 minutes, and it's the only item on this page that's a risk rather than a cost.

Section 5 · Standing rules

The algorithm, Tare-sized

The five steps in order — the order is the whole point. We've historically entered at step 5. These rules make steps 1 and 2 permanent.

Every requirement gets a name. No recurring dollar, cron, or motion exists because "that's how it's done." If nobody can say who needs it and why, it's not a requirement — it's a habit with a bill.
The 60-day rule. Any automation whose output hasn't changed a decision or a dollar in 60 days gets switched off. If we don't end up re-adding about 10% of what we delete, we didn't delete enough.
Optimize only survivors. No polishing, refactoring, or redesigning anything until it has survived a delete pass.
Accelerate the constraint only. Right now that's retention. Speed anywhere else is decoration.
Automate last. New automation requires naming the part it replaces or the constraint it serves. Otherwise it's a new part — and the best part is no part.

Section 6 · Your move

Approve by number.

Nothing has been cancelled, deleted, or changed. Reply in chat with the numbers to execute — e.g. "approve 1–5, 10–13, 16, 19, 20" — or "all", or ask about any line. Items 6, 7, 14, 18, 22, 23 need a one-word answer from you first. I'll execute approved kills, keep a written undo trail (exports, configs, cancellation notes), and log the whole pass to memory.

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