For impact-driven digital companies
What is your current setup really costing you?
Your company grew. Your systems didn't. For digital companies, and companies with a growing digital team, scaling from $3M to $20M, that gap rarely shows up as one big mistake. It shows up in small, everyday costs: decisions that wait on the founder, meetings that go nowhere, projects that grow beyond their scope, work that gets done twice and invoices that go out late. Put in your numbers and see what it adds up to.
Takes about a minute. Rough numbers are fine. These numbers don't go anywhere.
Your organization
Results update as you type.
The cost of waiting
Doing nothing isn't free. It's the most expensive option.
Every month you put this off, your current setup keeps costing you about $0. A fractional Chief of Staff isn't another expense to justify. It's a way to stop paying for problems you already have, so more of what you earn goes back into your growth and your mission.
Even if a Chief of Staff recovered only half of your estimate, that's $0 a month back in your business, and these numbers are already conservative.
What waiting 3 months could cost you
Beyond the savings
The calculator only counts what's easy to measure. The bigger payoff is growth.
Your estimate is about money you're losing. A Chief of Staff also helps you grow, so your mission isn't held back by how the business runs. Hover over or tap a card to see what it could be worth, based on your numbers. These figures are separate from your estimate above.
Where a figure applies, these add up to about $0 a year on top of your estimate.
Revenue
Invoices that go out on time and in full
Clear scoping, tracking and invoicing catch billable work that used to slip through the cracks, and get cash in the door sooner.
See the numbers ↻What it could be worth
a year, based on your numbers
Less time pulling together invoices and reports: about 2 hours a month per director and 6 hours a month for 3 staff, with 65% of that time recovered.
Revenue
A sales process that doesn't drop deals
Consistent follow-up and a clean handoff from sales to delivery mean fewer lost opportunities and happier new clients.
Why it matters ↻What it could be worth
Hard to put a fair number on this one.
This depends on your deal size and how many leads slip away today. It's not something a general calculator can estimate well, but we can work it out together on a strategy call.
Margins
Better pricing and scoping decisions
When you can see what work really costs, you can price it properly, push back on scope creep and stop taking on work that loses money.
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a year, based on your numbers
Better project tracking: about 30 hours a month spent chasing project updates, half of it recovered, plus avoiding one project overrun a year (a fixed $30,000, scaled to your number of projects).
Growth
Room to take on bigger opportunities
With clear capacity planning, you know when you can say yes to a larger contract or new market, and you're ready to deliver when you do.
Why it matters ↻What it could be worth
Hard to put a fair number on this one.
The value of a new contract or market depends entirely on your business, so there's no fair number to show here. Knowing you have the capacity to say yes is where it starts.
People
Better hiring decisions
Clear numbers on capacity and workload tell you whether you really need to hire, who and when, so you avoid both burnout and costly hires made too early.
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a year, based on your numbers
Work shared more evenly across your team, plus a fixed $15,000 for spotting staffing gaps before they cause problems.
People
Keeping your best people
Clear roles and less chaos reduce frustration and turnover, and every person you keep saves you the cost of rehiring and retraining.
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a year
Based on an estimate of about $15,000 to lose someone and hire and train their replacement. This counts keeping just one person a year who might otherwise have left.
Readiness
Ready for investors, boards and buyers
Reliable reporting and documented processes make due diligence, board meetings and funding conversations far easier, and make your business worth more.
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a year, based on your numbers
Board meetings, investor updates and due diligence take a real share of a CEO's time. This assumes reliable reporting saves 10% of your time each quarter, valued at your pay.
Operations
Systems that keep working
Simple financial processes, one way to manage projects, one place to find information, dashboards with current numbers, and AI and tools your team actually uses. Once built, they keep saving time long after.
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a year, based on your numbers
Less time searching for information (about 2 hours a week per person, half recovered) and building reports by hand (about 3 hours a month per director).
The question isn't whether you can afford a Chief of Staff. It's how much longer you can afford to run without one.
What actually changes
The week-to-week difference
Not big ideas. The everyday reality of how things run.
Not ready for a Chief of Staff?
Start by fixing one thing.
Not every growing company needs ongoing support right away. If one problem stands out, like invoicing, reporting, AI or messy processes, a focused implementation engagement is a lower-risk way to start. I don't just assess. I put the fix in place with your team.
Let's look at your numbers together
Your estimate is $0 a year. Let's find out where it's really coming from.
I work with founders of impact-driven digital companies scaling from $3M to $20M who've outgrown the way they run. Book a 30-minute strategy call. Your calculator results come with you, so we can start right where you left off.
Book a Strategy CallFigures on this page are estimates based on the numbers you enter and conservative assumptions. They are not guarantees or audited results. Actual outcomes vary by organization.
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