A Diagnostic Tool for Founder-Led Businesses

DEPENDENCY COST CALCULATOR

Your business has nine places where it can quietly depend on you — and every one of them has a price. Answer thirteen questions with real numbers and see what each dependency could be costing you a year.

13 QUESTIONS · 4 MINUTES · REAL NUMBERS IN, REAL DOLLARS OUT

Built on the same cost methodology Luxe Business Backend™ uses inside its forensic business audits. Conservative assumptions throughout — every figure shows its math.

QUESTION 1 OF 9

OR TYPE EXACT:

Before we go on — one number you should see

$0/hour

Based on what you just told us, this is what one hour of your time is currently worth to this business: your revenue divided by the hours you actually put in. Hold onto that number. The rest of these questions are about where those hours are really going.

Running your numbers…

Your Exposure Report

Nine dependencies. Nine potential leaks — priced with your numbers.

Across all nine dependencies, they could be costing you an estimated

every year — the combined total, conservatively estimated

See exactly where it's coming from in the breakdown below ↓

Estimated from your numbers using conservative assumptions — every figure below shows its math. Here's the honest part: numbers alone can't tell us which of these nine are active in your business, so they're listed in no particular order. Most founders at your stage are running three or four of them without knowing which. Finding yours is what the Discovery Call is for.

The Nine Dependencies — Each Priced With Your Numbers

What Each One Means — And the Fix That Actually Matches

The Question This Calculator Can't Answer

WHICH THREE ARE ACTUALLY BLEEDING?

This calculator estimates your exposure from thirteen numbers. A Dependency Discovery Call finds your real ones: we walk your nine exposures together, identify the three that are actually costing you, and you leave knowing your real number — and the right fix, not the wrong one you've probably already tried.

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ESTIMATES ONLY — YOUR ACTUAL FIGURES DEPEND ON WHICH DEPENDENCIES ARE ACTIVE IN YOUR BUSINESS