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Where does your team's week actually go?

Enter up to five roles. Round hours to the nearest. We'll show the team's billable utilisation, the annual cost of non-billable time, and the single biggest sink.

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Your team

Up to 5 roles. Hours per week per category. Round to the nearest hour.

Total per week40h
Total per week40h
Total per week40h
£40
Salary plus on-costs, blended across the team

Your numbers

Annual cost of non-billable time

£149,040

Wage cost of all non-billable hours across the team for a UK working year (46 weeks).

Billable utilisation

33%

Non-billable hrs/wk

81

Biggest single sink

Operations: Internal admin18h/wk

What this means

Structural problem

At £40k+ in non-billable wage time, the model itself probably needs rethinking. Talk to us before buying more software.

Book an Assessment £799
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A one-pager: what to do with these numbers — the four moves we make first inside a Team Diagnostic, ordered by speed-to-result. No spam.

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How this works

The point of this audit isn’t precision. It’s putting the shape of your team’s week on a single page so you can see the leak.

We multiply non-billable hours × blended hourly cost × 46 working weeks (UK working year minus holiday and bank holidays). We round the headline to the nearest £10.

Billable utilisation — billable hours divided by total hours — is the most useful sanity-check number for a small service team. A healthy UK SME service team runs at 55-70% billable. Below 50% usually means too many roles doing too many things.

Quick FAQ

Questions about this tool.

Round to the nearest hour. The point is the rough shape — billable vs non-billable, and which category eats the most time. Precision past that is false comfort.
Work a client is paying for at this moment. If you bill by retainer, count the hours actually spent on that client's work. Internal team time, even if you bill it back somewhere, doesn't count as billable here.
Wage time compounds. Five hours of admin a week × four people × a £40 hourly blended cost × 46 working weeks = £36,800 a year — and most owners have never seen it on a single page.
Only if you opt in to the email follow-up. The tool runs entirely in your browser otherwise.
Same approach as the Assessment but for teams of 2-10. Interviews each team member, surfaces the bottleneck patterns across the team, and gives a 30-day plan. See the Assessment.