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Founder Dependency Cost Estimator

Direct answer

This estimator puts a number on founder dependency. It values the founder hours consumed by routine approvals and answers, then adds the revenue effect of jobs delayed while waiting on that one person. Both figures use your own inputs, and neither assumes the founder's time disappears entirely.

Your inputs

Founder hours per week on routine approvals and answers14

Value of one founder hour$250

Jobs per month delayed waiting on the founder8

Percent of delayed jobs eventually lost15%

Average job value$6,500

Percent of that founder time a system could remove60%

Estimated impact

Annual value of founder time consumed: $182,000
Annual revenue lost to founder bottlenecks: $93,600
Total annual cost of founder dependency: $275,600
Founder time value reclaimable with process: $109,200

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Assumptions behind this estimate

Founder hourly value is your own estimate of the highest-value use of that time.
Delayed jobs are only counted as lost at the loss rate you set.
Documented process and delegation are assumed to remove only the share of time you specify.
No hiring, training or software cost is included in this figure.

This is a directional planning estimate produced from the numbers you entered. It is not a forecast or a guarantee.

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