Free calculator · 2 minutes
How many Fridays is admin taking from you?
Six kinds of busywork eat most owners’ weeks. Set the sliders to your numbers and see what AI and automation could hand back.
Your week, in six sliders.
Start with our defaults for your business. Then make it yours — the number only means something if the inputs are true.
What kind of business?
Pick your business to sharpen the defaults.
Who does this work?
We’ll scale the starting points. Every slider stays yours to edit.
Reading, sorting, forwarding, “just following up”
Booking, rescheduling, confirmations, no-show chasing
Intake forms, time entry, job notes, copying between systems
Standard letters, quotes/estimates, intake docs, first-draft content
“What’s the status?” “What do you charge?” “Where do I park?”
Creating invoices, chasing payment, reconciling
If it’s mostly you, use your billable or effective rate. If staff share the load, blend it down. Your call.
Assumes 52 weeks. A “Friday” is an 8-hour day. Every number above comes straight from your sliders.
Back in your hands:
~20 hrs/week
~$131,300 /year
Your week. Sage is what you’d get back.
Assumes 52 weeks. A “Friday” is an 8-hour day. Every number above comes straight from your sliders.
Your breakdown
See where the hours are hiding.
Your per-category breakdown, your Fridays-back count, and a one-page report in your inbox — so you can check the math on a slow Tuesday.
~20 hrs/wk · ~$131,300/yr
Why this number is probably real
You’re not imagining it.
36%
of the average entrepreneur’s week goes to small admin tasks.
Every 2 minutes
the average worker is interrupted by a meeting, email, or ping. ~117 emails and ~153 messages a day.
2.2 hrs/week
saved by workers just casually using AI. Purpose-built automation is where the real hours are.
The hours are real. So is getting them back.
If the number looks high, twenty minutes is enough to talk through what to change first.