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📐 MARGIN DIAGNOSTIC — FREE

Ten questions. One number.

How much does your company pay each year for someone to do what a system would do on its own?
Answer below. The figure updates as you type — no email, no commitment, nobody calling you.

1 of 10

Including partners and part-timers. It keeps the result from exceeding what the team has to give.

2 of 10

We use it to estimate the burdened cost per hour. If you know yours, enter it and we'll skip the estimate.

3 of 10

Count all of it: gathering prices, writing, formatting, sending, correcting.

4 of 10

Where are the same details typed in twice?

Tick everything that applies. This is usually the largest single item.

5 of 10

Sales, production, hours, stock — anything that means copying numbers from one place to another to see them together.

6 of 10

Email threads and phone calls just to settle on a time.

7 of 10

Reminders, account statements, calling to ask whether the payment went out.

8 of 10

Count the systems someone has to log into by hand to move information across. One on its own doesn't count — it isn't disconnected from anything.

9 of 10

In working hours. This one doesn't enter the euro figure — and the result explains why.

10 of 10

If that person is away tomorrow, what stops? This one doesn't enter the euros either — but it's usually the answer that weighs most.

Annual cost of manual work a system would do

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— recoverable hours per month

Where to start

    And two risks that carry no euro figure

      We put no euros on these two because it would mean assuming conversion rates we don't measure. An invented number here would contaminate every other one.

      Want this as a PDF, with the detail?

      The figure is already yours — it's up there and you don't have to give us anything. If you want the document with the calculation line by line and what to do first, leave your email.

      And if you want the measured version?

      This diagnostic uses what you declare. The Operational X-Ray measures: it cross-references these answers with your site's signals, benchmarks you against companies in the same sector and district, and produces a 10-14 page report with a phased plan.