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Is it worth building?

Your numbers against our price. Sometimes the honest answer is not yet, and this page will say so.

The task

Enter it as

How often it happens

How long each one takes, today

Who does it

Their annual salary

Base salary, or the equivalent. An average for the role. Change it to yours. About $111 an hour at 38 hours a week.

How much of it could realistically be handed off

60%

Rarely all of it. A person still reviews what leaves the building. Sixty percent is a fair starting guess for document assembly; lower for judgement-heavy work.

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Fee proposals, on your numbers

Time on it a year: 430 hours; about $48,000
Of which could be handed off, at 60%: $29,000; a year
Embedded AI Leadership: $24,000; a year, from $2,000 a month

Our read, on this task alone

Marginal, on this task alone.

This one task about covers the retainer, not by much. Add the next task of this shape, or the other people who touch this one, and it clears comfortably. That is the conversation to have.

Show the working

$220,000 / 52 / 38 = $111.34 an hour
12 a month × 3 hours × 12 = 432 h a year
432 h × $111.34 = $48,097
× 60% = $28,858
retainer $2,000 × 12 = $24,000
ratio 1.20

Salary to hourly at 38 hours a week for 52 weeks, no on-costs. 240 working days and 48 weeks for the task itself. One task against the whole retainer. The retainer works on more than one, so this understates it on purpose.

How this is worked out

Every figure is arithmetic on what you typed. We state no saving of our own.
The one number that is ours is the retainer, read from the same place the retainer page reads it.
It weighs one task against the whole retainer. The retainer works on more than one, so the result understates on purpose.
Hours round to ten and dollars to the nearest hundred or thousand. An estimate should look like one.
It can say not yet. If it does, that is the same thing we would say on a call, and we would rather you heard it here first.
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