Cost of chaos

What does operational chaos cost you every month?

Ten numbers you already know roughly. The calculator turns them into euros. Prefilled with an example 25-person company — replace them with yours.

Team time lost

People on the teamEveryone who touches daily operations, except the founder

Hours lost per person, per weekManual copying, searching for info, rework, waiting on approvals

Average cost per hourSalary plus taxes and overhead

€

Founder bottleneck

Founder hours per week on firefightingApprovals, fixing things, answering “where is…”

Value of a founder hourWhat that hour earns on growth work

€

Money leaking

Monthly revenue or spend you processSales, ad spend, payouts — whatever flows through your books

€

Share lost to unreconciled errorsOverbilling, missed refunds, payout gaps — your best estimate

Unused or duplicate software per monthSeats nobody logs into, overlapping tools

€

People churn

People who leave per yearIncluding those who leave in the first 6 months

Cost to replace one personHiring, onboarding, lost output while ramping up

€

How it is calculated. Team time = people × hours per week × 4.33 weeks × hourly cost. Founder time = founder hours × 4.33 × value per hour. Leakage = monthly flow × leakage share. Churn = leavers per year × replacement cost ÷ 12. Software = unused monthly spend as entered.

This is an estimate from your own inputs, not an audit. A diagnostic replaces each assumption with measured numbers from your processes and data.

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