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Where does your week actually go?

Six categories. Slide your hours. We'll show you how many hours a week you spend on tasks below your rate, and which to delegate first.

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Your typical week

Hours per week on each category. Be honest, not aspirational.

5h
Calls, proposals, follow-ups
20h
The thing clients actually pay for
6h
Invoicing, chasing, bookkeeping
8h
Internal and external messaging
6h
Internal team meetings
3h
LinkedIn, posts, newsletters
£85
What your time is worth, not what you charge clients

Your numbers

Hours per week below your rate

16.8 hrs

Time spent on tasks that don’t need to be done at a £85/hr owner’s rate. Worth about £65,690 a year.

Total weekly hours

48 hrs

Biggest single sink

Email and Slack

Top 3 quick-win categories

  • Email and Slack — 8h/wk
  • Admin and finance — 6h/wk
  • Meetings and calls — 6h/wk

What this means

Worth a 30-minute look

There are usually three quick wins for a founder in this range. The free quiz surfaces them.

Book an Assessment £799
Optional

Get the three tasks owners delegate first

A one-page follow-up with the three tasks a founder typically offloads first, named UK tools to do it with, and a sensible order to roll them out in. No spam.

We’ll be in touch with the follow-up. Your email stays with us.

Free

Personal score + 3 quick wins to try

The 9-question AI readiness quiz. Two minutes, no sign-up. We send your score and three small things you can try this week.

Take the free quiz

From £799

AI workflow assessment

60-minute interview, 48-hour custom report with named tools, exact steps and a 7-day plan. Money-back if we don’t surface 5+ hours a week.

Book an Assessment £799

Done for you

Done-for-you Agent Build

We design, build, and hand over the AI agent. Scoped on a call, priced by complexity band. Best for owners short on time, not ideas.

See Agent Build

How this works

Most founders run on a vague feeling of being too stretched. This tool turns the feeling into a number — hours per week spent on tasks below your owner’s rate.

Each category has a fixed low-value share. Admin and finance is 90% low-value. Email and Slack is 70%. Client delivery is 0%. Marketing is 40% — drafting LinkedIn posts is low-value, the strategic call isn’t. The shares are tuned for owner-operated service businesses; tweak mentally if your model is different.

The annual £ figure uses 46 working weeks (UK working year, minus holiday and bank holidays). It’s the wage cost of the hours, not lost revenue — your real upside is usually 2-3 times the headline because the freed time goes into selling or delivering more.

Quick FAQ

Questions about this tool.

Each category has a fixed low-value share based on what a founder typically should not be doing personally. Admin and finance is 90% low-value (most of it shouldn't sit on you). Client delivery is 0% low-value (that's the work). Marketing is 40% — drafting is low-value, strategic positioning isn't.
Most founders under-count. You think the half-hour you spend on invoicing is fine because you're 'fast at it'. The shares are deliberately tuned to flag what owners typically misjudge.
It converts the low-value hours into an annual £ figure so you can decide whether to delegate, automate, or kill. Use what your time is genuinely worth, not what you charge clients.
Only if you opt in to the email follow-up. The tool runs entirely in your browser otherwise.
A 60-minute interview, a 48-hour custom report with named tools, exact steps and a 7-day plan. £799, money-back if we don’t surface 5+ hours a week. See what’s in the report.