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Engineering meeting cost calculator

Most engineering meetings exist because async context infrastructure is missing. Find out what your meeting load actually costs in dollars, hours, and FTE-equivalents.

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Adjust the sliders to match your team. Defaults reflect a typical Series B engineering org.

25

Engineers attending recurring meetings

5200
8

Standups, syncs, reviews, 1:1s, planning

220
45m

In minutes

1590
$150

Per engineer, including overhead

$80$250
40%

Honest estimate, what would survive scrutiny

0100
Total annual cost
$1.2M
6h per engineer per week·3.9 FTE-equivalent
Replaceable meetings$468K40% of meetings that could be replaced with structured async records.
FTE-equivalent in meetings3.9 FTEYour team is effectively running with this many fewer full-time engineers because of meeting load.
What structured handoffs change
$281K
Projected annual savings
~60%
Capture rate on replaceable meetings

Teams that adopt structured shift-end records typically replace 60% of their could-have-been-async meetings within the first quarter. The remaining 40% are conversations that genuinely need real-time back-and-forth.

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