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See what's inside →Map a typical week against your real hourly worth. See which tasks are worth your time, and what it's costing you to keep doing the low-value work yourself.
3 zones
Strategic, operational & admin
14 tasks
Allocate your weekly hours
Your $/hr
See your true opportunity cost
Ask an owner where their week goes and you'll usually get a rough answer. Lay it out honestly and it tends to be sobering: a surprising share of the week is spent on work that isn't the work only the owner can do. That gap, between where your hours go and where they'd create the most value, is the quiet tax of founder dependency.
The Founder Time Audit asks you to allocate your typical week across the main categories of business activity, then shows the split back to you. Seeing it as a whole makes the pattern obvious: how much is genuinely owner-level work, how much is admin and coordination that could move off your desk, and where you've become the bottleneck without meaning to.
Owners who feel busy but not productive, and want an honest picture of how their week is really spent before deciding what to change.
The short answers are here. For anything else, ask below or get in touch.
Because time is the owner's scarcest resource, and it leaks in ways that are invisible until you lay them out. Most owners find a large share of their week goes to work that doesn't need them specifically, which is exactly the work to move off their desk first.
These tools work together to give you a clearer picture of your business.
Use these results to make better decisions. If you'd like a second pair of eyes on them, an advisor can walk through what they mean for the business.