Ask an owner if admin is slowing them down and they'll say yes. Ask them how much it costs and they go quiet.

That silence is the problem. You can't fix a number you've never worked out.

The blended rate trap

Here's the maths most people never do.

Your time is worth something. If the business couldn't run without you, your hour is easily worth 90 to 120 dollars, often more. That's not ego. That's what your best hour produces.

Now look at what you actually spend those hours on. Chasing an invoice. Copying details into a spreadsheet. Booking a meeting over six emails. Formatting a report.

That's 30 dollar an hour work. And you're doing it with 100 dollar an hour time.

Every hour you spend down there isn't just an hour lost. It's the gap between the two rates, gone.

A real example

Let me make it concrete. Take three normal time sinks.

Say each one eats two and a half hours a week. That's not a stretch. For most owners it's generous to the low side.

Three tasks. Two and a half hours each. That's seven and a half hours a week.

Value that at a careful 65 dollars an hour, well below what your real time is worth.

Seven and a half hours times 65 dollars is about 490 dollars a week. Call it 2,100 dollars a month. Some months more.

And that's only three tasks. Most owners have ten.

Why the number always shocks

When we run this with an owner, the figure is always higher than they guessed. Always.

Because the cost was never one big bill. It was hidden in a hundred small moments. Ten minutes here. Half an hour there. It never showed up on a statement, so it never felt real.

Once you see it as one number, you can't unsee it. That's usually the moment the decision makes itself.

Find your number

We built a free audit that does this maths with you. No pitch. You answer a few questions about your week and we show you what your admin is actually costing.

Most people are surprised. Some are annoyed. All of them are glad they finally know.

The number is real whether you look at it or not. You may as well look.