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How much is manual
admin really costing you?

Nine quick questions about how your week actually goes. At the end: a personalised score, and an estimate of time spent on admin and the indicative weekly value of that time.

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Built for founders & small teams across the UK
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How is the result calculated?

This is a discussion indicator, not a measurement of recoverable time. The money figures value time spent on admin; they are not confirmed lost revenue or guaranteed cash savings.

The estimate assumes 46 working weeks a year. Weekly hour bands use representative values of 1, 3.5, 7.5, 15 and 25 hours. Rate bands use £35, £75, £125, £200 and £275 per hour. The score weights admin hours (40 points), manual task types (25), evening work (20) and the automation gap (15), then is bounded between 3 and 99. A Review examines which steps can actually change and the costs involved.

Illustration of a male business owner completing an administrative work checklist.

Question 1 of 9

How many people work in your business, including you?

What’s closest to your role?

In a normal week, how many hours do you personally spend on work that doesn’t need your specific expertise: invoicing, chasing, data entry, scheduling, reporting?

Roughly, what is an hour of your time worth? Your day rate divided by hours worked, or what you’d bill a client.

Which of these still happen by hand in your business? Choose as many as apply.

How often do you find yourself working evenings or weekends just to keep on top of admin?

Do you already use any automation or AI tools, like Zapier, Make, CRM workflows, or ChatGPT and Claude for admin work?

What’s the biggest operational headache right now?

If you got five or more hours back every week, what would you do with them?

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Your Invisible Work Score, out of 100

 

Your cost breakdown is ready

Based on your answers, it shows:

  • the hours you lose every week
  • what those hours are worth, per week and per year
  • where I would start to win them back

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