How it works

How DANGO puts a price on your AI’s work, and how it reads your ABTI from the numbers. It only uses what’s logged on your Mac: turns, minutes, lines changed and model spend. Every threshold is fixed, so you’re never ranked against anyone.

How your AI’s work becomes a number

1 · Who’d do it

Each step goes to the job that would normally do it: code to a software engineer, copy to a writer, a health question to a doctor. 20 jobs in all.

2 · How long

How long a person would need for that step: code by the lines changed, writing by its length. Repeat the same kind of command or search and each one counts for less.

3 · What it’s worth

Minutes × that job’s U.S. median hourly wage (Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025). No caps, and your total only ever goes up.

Model spend uses each provider’s published API prices. Leverage = value of the work ÷ model spend.

How the four letters are decided

HHands-off/MMicro

A turn is hands-off when the AI makes at least 8 tool calls in a row on its own (editing a file, running a command and searching each count as one), or uses a subagent. More than 50% of all your turns hands-off → H. Otherwise → M.

BBuild/FFix

Lines written into newly created files ÷ all changed lines (added + deleted). More than 50% → B. Otherwise → F.

SSpecialist/GGeneralist

Split your dangos' work across the 8 crew roles by dollar value (each hidden role counts as one more). If 3 or more roles each take at least 10% → G. Otherwise → S.

LLark/OOwl

Using your Mac's local time: working minutes between 8 PM and 8 AM ÷ all working minutes. More than 50% → O. Otherwise → L.

When the Hands-off, Build or Owl share lands between 45% and 55%, the card puts “≈” in front of the number: you're on the fence, and the letter still follows the rule above. Specialist / Generalist has no fence zone.
Exactly 50% goes to the second letter (M / F / O), because the rule says “more than.”

How big is your company?

By the value of the work your dangos did. Fixed thresholds, not a ranking.

Solo StallJust opened the stall. Your dangos are on probation.< $10k

WorkshopSmall shop, but the dangos already work in shifts.$10k – 100k

StudioDesks, a coffee machine, and dangos who call you boss.$100k – 1M

GroupYour dangos have departments now, and opinions about you.$1M – 10M

ListedYou rang the bell. The dangos are asking about stock options.≥ $10M

“Value of the work” = minutes of each kind of work × the US median hourly wage for that job (BLS data).
Tiers go by your running total. Nothing is annualized.

How ruthless are you?

margin = 1 − model cost ÷ value of the work

≥ 95%Ruthless BossThe dangos badmouth you in the break room.

80–95%Textbook CapitalistSharp with the numbers, and the dangos respect it.

50–80%Decent BossThe dangos say you're alright.

0–50%PhilanthropistWhat you pay the dangos almost matches the work they do.

< 0Paying to WorkYou pay the dangos more than their work is worth.

Only the ratio counts: a solo stall spending $5 on models can still be a Ruthless Boss.
The card also shows leverage: value of the work ÷ model cost. It’s the same idea, turned the other way round.

Your crew · 8 roles

All coding work counts as Coder. A role is about the work the dangos do, not your ABTI, and each role keeps its color wherever it ranks. The small dangos on the right are alternate looks for the same role.