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Operational Drag Cost Calculator | Nautilus Operations Consulting

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What is operational drag
actually costing your business?

Enter your numbers below to see a directional estimate of what broken or inefficient operations cost your business — and how that compares across both service investments. Every number is based entirely on your inputs.

Your billing rate, or estimate: owner draw ÷ hours worked per month

$ / hr

Time spent on manual tasks, rework, or decisions that shouldn't require you

hrs / wk

Deals not closed, clients not retained, or capacity blocked by broken operations

$ / mo

People whose output is slowed or waiting on decisions that run through you

people

Used to estimate your team's lost productivity — enter 0 if no team

$ / hr

Your Estimated 6-Month Cost of Staying the Same

See how both engagements compare.

6-Month Consultancy

Strategic Operations
Advisory

$4,500 / mo  ·  $27,000 total

Enter your numbers above to see your estimate.

6- or 12-Month Engagement

Fractional COO

$7,000 / mo  ·  $42,000 / 6-mo total

Enter your numbers above to see your estimate.
How these numbers are calculated +
Your Time Cost Hourly rate × hours lost per week × 4.33 (standard average weeks per month: 52 ÷ 12) × 6 months.
Revenue Opportunity Cost Your monthly uncaptured revenue estimate × 6 months. Reflects revenue not realized because operational drag limits delivery capacity, client acquisition, or retention.
Team Productivity Cost Team hourly rate × estimated team hours lost per week (conservatively calculated at 30% of owner's lost hours per person) × 4.33 × 6 months × number of affected team members.
ROI (Total cost of inaction − service investment) ÷ service investment × 100. Standard return on investment calculation.
Breakeven Point Service investment ÷ (total cost of inaction ÷ 6 months) = number of months until the investment is recovered.

These are directional estimates based entirely on your inputs — not projections, guarantees, or promises of specific results. Individual results depend on your specific business, the nature of your constraints, and the degree to which advisory recommendations are implemented. This calculator is designed to help you think clearly about the real cost of operational drag — nothing more.

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