The Delegation Gate
A forced pause before any task: can someone else do this, and if so, who? The friction is the point. Without the gate, every task gets done by the most expensive person available — you.
Most delegation tools assign tasks after the decision to delegate has been made. The harder problem is the moment before that — the default to do it yourself. A delegation gate is a forced pause before any task starts, asking one question: can someone else do this, and if so, who?
The friction is the point. Without the gate, every task gets done by the most expensive person available, which is you. With the gate, even a one-second pause reveals that 60% of what you were about to do shouldn't be done by you at all.
The tool can be as light as a Notion checkbox or as heavy as a real-time prompt. What matters is that the decision point exists, not which form it takes.