What Does Being the Bottleneck Cost You Each Year?
Enter the hours you spend each week answering status questions, approving small decisions and chasing follow-up. You’ll see what that time costs in a year and how much a clearer workflow could give back. Nothing is stored or sent.
Coordination time per year
What that time costs you per year
What a clearer workflow could give back
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Yearly coordination hours = hours per week × weeks per year. Yearly cost = those hours × what an hour of your time is worth. Time a clearer workflow could give back = yearly hours × the share you entered. The coordinator comparison sets that recovered value against the yearly cost you entered. These are your numbers, not industry benchmarks.
In one anonymized remodeling engagement, standard intake, a production-ready gate and an owner dashboard cut owner coordination from 21.3 to 13.2 hours a week. Read the case study.
What counts as coordination time?
Time spent moving work between people instead of doing it: answering “where does this stand?”, approving routine decisions, rebuilding the schedule, chasing estimates and callbacks, and relaying information from one person to another.
How do I get those hours back?
Most owners get the first hours back without new software: give every open job one owner and one dated next action, write down which decisions the team can make without you, and put job status where everyone can see it so people stop asking. See how to stop being the bottleneck.
Should I hire an operations manager?
Sometimes. If the time you could get back is worth more than the hire costs, the role can pay for itself. But a new hire inherits the workflow you have, so define the handoffs first or they will spend their days rebuilding status from your memory.
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