Correction Time Tax

Correction Time Tax is the labor an agency absorbs when AI-assisted edits look finished but are not. The category description is explicit that the productivity result worth measuring is the change in accepted deliverables and labor, not a category-wide multiplier, and correction time is where that gap shows up. A tool can cut a rough cut from 90 minutes to 12 and still lose money if a senior editor spends 40 minutes fixing captions, sync, and color before a client sees it. The tax scales with how far a tool's output sits from the client's format and brand spec. Submagic may nail 123-language captions on a talking-head short, while a multi-cam interview cut through KinoPipe's FFmpeg operations still needs a human pass on audio and pacing. Price the tax per deliverable, not per seat.