Run the numbers
What is the leak actually costing you?
The cost stage of the system map, made interactive. Plug in your real numbers — nothing is stored, nothing is sent. Estimates, not promises: honest math you can check yourself.
Your operation
Calls that hit voicemail while you're on the job. Most callers don't call back — they call the next shop.
Share of missed callers who would have become paying jobs if you'd answered in time.
What one booked job is worth to you, on average.
Manual follow-ups, reminders, scheduling back-and-forth, and chasing confirmations.
What an hour of your time is worth on the tools, not on the phone.
The honest math, per year
Revenue walking away
$65,625
15 missed calls × 25% would-be bookings × $350 per job
Time burned on admin
$12,500
250 hours a year on follow-up by hand
Total annual drag
$78,125
That's the number the system has to beat — and the number most owners have never seen written down.
If a system recovers even 30%
$23,438
A bounded, human-approved follow-up system typically costs a small fraction of this. Compare cost to value before you spend a dollar — that's the discipline.
The math is the method
This calculator is stage sixteen of the system map — cost and resource awareness — made tangible. Every Crate South program teaches you to run this math before building anything.
Nothing leaves this page
Your numbers stay in your browser. No tracking, no storage, no follow-up email you didn't ask for. Check the math yourself — the formula is printed under every result.
Sometimes the answer is "don't build"
If the drag is small and the system cost is real, the honest move is to skip it. We teach the build / don't-build / not-yet decision as seriously as the build itself.
Like the numbers? Learn the method.
The AI for Local Business Operations program takes owners from this exact math to a mapped, bounded, measurable system — with the cost known before anything is built.