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How much is hiding in your operations?

AI multiplies whatever you point it at — a broken process or a clean one. This finds the leak worth pointing it at first: the same 3-bucket math from our 48-hour audits — duplicative, unnecessary, coordination drag — sized to your operation from six numbers you already know. No signup to see your number.

Size your leak ↓every benchmark disclosed · nothing hidden in the math
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Your operation

Industry
$12M
people
$

Fully loaded — prefilled for Construction, adjust if you know yours

22 systems

CRM, PM, accounting, dispatch — spreadsheets-used-as-tools count. Most $10M+ ops run 20–40.

How much still runs on manual handoffs?
Scenario
Preliminary leak estimate
expected case
Hiding in your operations
$376.7k–$565.1k
per year · expected $470,880 ≈ 3.9% of revenue (on-site we typically verify 3–6%)
✓ Over the $250K guarantee line — find it or the audit is free
Unnecessary work$294,840/yr
Admin & coordination that shouldn't exist
Coordination drag$140,400/yr
Re-keying, status-chasing, rework between systems
Duplicative systems$35,640/yr
Overlap & unused licences across 22 systems
Cost of doing nothing · 5 years
$1.2M$2.4M$250K — our year-one guaranteeY1Y2Y3Y4Y5

Estimates from disclosed benchmarks at today’s volume — the audit replaces this with your real numbers. Full method below.

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The full breakdown

Where it’s hiding

By department · people-side leak ($435,240/yr)
DepartmentEst. hiding / yrShare
Operations & project management$174,09640%
Admin & back office$130,57230%
Finance & billing$65,28615%
Sales operations$65,28615%
Systems (duplicative licences & overlap)$35,640—
12-month recovery schedule
PhaseRun-rate recoveredHow
Days 1–30$141,264/yrDemolition Round — kill duplicative tools + obvious waste
Quarter 2$258,984/yrRework the workflows behind the unnecessary bucket
Quarter 3$329,616/yrAutomate what survived — now it multiplies value, not waste
Quarter 4$376,704/yrRun-rate: recovered and compounding
Method & benchmarks
  1. Fully-loaded cost per employee: $78,000 (prefilled for Construction, editable). Payroll base ≈ $4,680,000.
  2. Duplicative systems: 22 systems × $6,000/yr avg × 27% overlapping/unused (industry SaaS-management benchmark).
  3. Unnecessary work: admin/coordination runs 35% of payroll at your manual-load answer; 30% of it is removable or automatable and 60% of that is realistically captured within a year.
  4. Coordination drag: re-keying between systems, status-chasing, and rework ≈ 3.0% of payroll at your manual load.
  5. The expected scenario scales the estimate ×1.0.
  6. Estimates are capped at 9% of revenue to stay conservative. On-site audits typically verify 3–6% of revenue in recoverable waste.
Your estimate
Duplicative systems
$35,640
Unnecessary work
$294,840
Coordination drag
$140,400
Hiding per year
$470,880

These are planning estimates from disclosed benchmarks — the 48-hour audit replaces every line with your actual numbers. Not a guarantee of results or financial advice.

Next step

You're over the guarantee line.

Your estimate clears our $250K threshold. We fly in for 48 hours, map every workflow, and hand you the real number — if we can't find $250K+, the audit is free.

The full breakdown

See where it’s hiding — free

Department-by-department breakdown of your $470,880 estimate, every benchmark behind the math, your 12-month recovery schedule, and a printable copy.

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