The Elimination Project
Every organization accumulates meetings that once served a purpose and no longer do. Before you send the next invite, run the test. You'll get a verdict and a concrete next step in under a minute.
Run the Meeting Test See the Four VerdictsFor the person calling the meeting
Answer a few questions. If the meeting is worth holding, you'll get a sharper version of it. If it isn't, you'll get an honest verdict and something better to do instead — a doc, a message, a decision you make yourself.
The Four Verdicts
The test doesn't hedge. It picks one verdict and gives you something to do with it.
This meeting earns its place. You'll get the 2–3 things that'll make it actually work — a named decision owner, a pre-read, strict time-boxes.
It's a meeting, but not the one you planned. You'll get a tighter agenda, a sharper invite list, and who to cut and why.
A message, a Loom, a shared doc. You'll get the specific format and a template — and the people you'd have invited get their time back.
Don't hold it. You'll get the one-sentence message to send, and an honest answer to what (if anything) replaces it.
The Philosophy
Organizations default to adding. New initiative, new report, new meeting — all well-intentioned, all piled on top of what came before. Nobody's job is to remove.
A one-hour meeting with eight people isn't one hour. It's eight hours — and that's before you count the preparation, the follow-up, and the context-switching cost on both ends. Multiply that by how often it recurs and you're measuring weeks, not hours.
Most recurring meetings survive not because they're useful, but because canceling them feels rude. Most new meetings get called because sending a clear message feels harder. Neither of those is a good reason to pull eight people into a room.
This tool makes the decision before the invite goes out — when you can still change your mind without anyone knowing.