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The Efficiency Calculator

Nine inputs, a transparent model, and no fantasy numbers. Every figure below is capped by the time you actually have available to reclaim.

What is your role?

How many people on your team?8

Includes contractors who work in your systems.

Fully-loaded value of your hour$500

Typical for founder / owner-operator: $500.

Annual revenue$1,000,000

Used only for the revenue-upside estimate.

Hours per person per week lost to busywork11 h

Copy-paste, status chasing, reporting, data entry, scheduling.

Hours per person per week in meetings8 h

We assume roughly a third of meeting time is genuinely removable.

Monthly spend on outsourcing, VAs and contractors$4,000

Automation absorbs part of this rather than all of it.

How well tooled are you today?

Where do you want efficiency?

Your projected impact

2,991

Hours saved / year

$657,236

Costs avoided / year

$210,433

Revenue upside / year

$846,165

Net annual gain

39.3x

Return on stack spend

9 days

Payback

About 9.6 hours back per person each week — 65 across the team, or 1.7 full-time equivalents a year. Limited by realistic tool overlap, not by your inputs.

Where the money comes from

Time returned to you and the team$552,179
Meeting time removed$80,577
Outsourcing and contractor spend absorbed$14,400
Software consolidated into fewer tools$10,080
Estimated cost of the stack− $21,504
Net, before revenue upside$635,732

Assumptions: 46 working weeks, 70% of reclaimed time converts to higher-value work at your level, team hours valued at a blended rate rather than yours, tool overlap discounted 18% per additional tool, and revenue upside capped at 32% of current revenue.

7 tools matched your profile

Wispr Flow
Granola
Superlist
Superhuman
Make.com
CodeRabbit
Perplexity

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Five areas of leverage

Potential is not only a business problem. We cover the whole operator.

Executive Ops

Operating systems, automation and revenue infrastructure.

AI Leverage

Leverage tools that do the work of a small team.

Peak Performance

Energy, recovery and longevity for operators.

Reclaimed Family Time

Tools that protect family time and attention.

Focus & Clarity

Focus, stillness and intention as a performance edge.

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90 / 100AI Leverage

Wispr Flow

Reader supported partner

Voice-to-text that writes at the speed you think.

Wispr Flow turns natural speech into clean, formatted writing anywhere on your machine — email, docs, Slack, code comments. For founders who process ideas out loud, it removes the single largest tax on daily output: typing.

Time to value: Setup: 15 minutes
The yield: Saves: 3.5 hrs/week

3-4x faster drafting than keyboard typing
Cleans up filler words and formats automatically
Works across every app, no copy-paste workflow

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85.2 / 100Executive Ops

Dub.co

Reader supported partner

Link infrastructure and first-party attribution.

Dub replaces guesswork with attribution. Branded short links, deep links, real conversion tracking and a built-in affiliate program — one dashboard instead of four tools.

Time to value: Setup: 5 minutes
The yield: Saves: 1.2 hrs/week

Know exactly which channel produced revenue
Branded domains lift click-through rates
Run your own affiliate program in-house

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89.2 / 100Executive Ops

Framer

Reader supported partner

Design and publish production sites without a dev queue.

Framer collapses the design-to-deploy loop. Marketing teams ship landing pages the same afternoon they conceive them, and template sales create a second revenue line for designers.

Time to value: Setup: 5 minutes
The yield: Saves: 1.5 hrs/week

Removes front-end dev cost for marketing pages
Instant publishing and A/B iteration
Template marketplace with high revenue retention

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81.6 / 100AI Leverage

Granola

Reader supported partner

AI meeting notes that produce decisions, not transcripts.

Granola listens to your calls and returns structured summaries, decisions and action items so nobody has to play scribe — and nothing agreed in a meeting evaporates.

Time to value: Setup: 30 minutes
The yield: Saves: 2.2 hrs/week

Hosts stay present instead of typing
Automatic decisions and task lists
Searchable institutional memory of every call

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86.7 / 100Peak Performance

Superpower

Reader supported partner

Biomarker testing and a real dashboard for your body.

Superpower turns annual bloodwork into a continuous performance dashboard. Founders catch fatigue drivers before they become quarters of lost output.

Time to value: Setup: 5 minutes
The yield: Saves: 1.5 hrs/week

100+ biomarkers tracked over time
Catches energy and hormone issues early
Concrete metrics instead of vague advice

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86.7 / 100Focus & Clarity

Flora

Reader supported partner

Gamified deep work and distraction blocking.

Flora makes focus a shared, visible commitment. Time-blocked sessions with social accountability turn intention into practice.

Time to value: Setup: 5 minutes
The yield: Saves: 2.5 hrs/week

Protected, uninterrupted deep work blocks
Blocks distraction during key hours
Group sessions build collective focus

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85.1 / 100Reclaimed Family Time

Tonies

Non monetized / FOSS

Screen-free audio for kids — and quiet hours for you.

Tonies gives children stories and music they control themselves, without a screen. Parents get calmer evenings and genuinely uninterrupted focus windows.

Time to value: Setup: 5 minutes
The yield: Saves: 2 hrs/week

Screen-free entertainment kids run themselves
Reliable quiet windows for focused work
Growing library keeps engagement high

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