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Cost of doing nothing

What is the status quo costing you?

Size the cost of doing nothing, in your own numbers.

Pick the workflow that matters most and set the sliders to how the work actually runs - every figure here is built from your own numbers, not our projections.

Every slow intake delays billable work and risks taking on a matter that should have been screened out.

The current state, in your numbers

$318,600

is what intake and conflicts qualification costs to run for a year at these settings.

The cost of waiting

$159,300 over 6 months

1 month24 months
New matters screened400 matters / month

What to count: Every new matter or engagement your team screens monthly, including resubmissions.

Staff time per intake45 min

What to count: Average hands-on time to screen and open a single matter.

Fully-loaded hourly cost$75 / hr

What to count: Salary plus benefits and overhead for the staff doing this work.

Intakes returned for missing information18%

What to count: Share of intakes that go back for missing or incorrect information.

These are your numbers. The defaults are only a starting point. Adjust every slider until the picture matches how the work actually runs.

How the "in play" figure works

It is a structural read, not a forecast. Each workflow is broken into its real steps, and the ones that are sorting the work, sending it to the right place, pulling records, or drafting the first version are flagged as the surface AI typically changes. The figure is your annual cost multiplied by the share of cost sitting in those steps.

It says how much is addressable, never how much you would save. Rework is assumed to add roughly one extra handling cycle. All step shares are directional and confirmed against your real workflow during a Jumpstart.

Next step

Seeing the number is the easy part.

The diagnostic turns this picture into a specific, measurable plan: the workflow to redesign first, what stands in the way, and how much of that cost is genuinely recoverable.