The cost of the status quo
What does your content operation cost today?
Most founders have never costed their content operation, because the biggest line, their own time, never appears on an invoice. Put your real numbers in and see what today costs and what a different workflow would release. Nothing here projects revenue.
Your figures and what they cost
Inputs
Your numbers
Not your salary: what the business loses when you spend an hour on something else.
Including thinking about it, rewriting drafts and chasing people.
Your typical cycle time, not your best case.
Commercial context
Optional. Only fill these in if you genuinely know the numbers: a guess here makes the output worse, not better.
Current estimated operating cost
£128,000
per year, at the figures above
Cost per shipped piece
£889
144 pieces a year
Your time in the operation
416.0h
per year
Potential capacity released
Scenario: a workflow where you only record and approve
Founder time under this scenario
1.4 hrs
per week, down from 8
Capacity released
342.0h
per year, valued at £85.5K