Business Playbook ROI Calculator
Model the return on building a Business Playbook for your service business. Onboarding savings + rework reduction → 12-month and 3-year ROI.
How the model works
Two savings streams, both built on conservative, adjustable assumptions you can see and change in the form above:
- Onboarding. We cost the productivity lost during ramp, not the full salary paid. A new hire averages roughly 50% of full output across the ramp window, so we count that gap, then shorten the ramp with a documented Playbook.
- Rework. Redo hours valued at your loaded labour cost (not the billable rate, so there's no double-count), reduced by documented standards and checklists.
A note on the numbers
- New hires take months to reach full productivity; structured onboarding gets them there materially faster, up to half the time.
- Documented standards, checklists, and QC protocols typically cut rework by half or more, consistent with our Cost of Rework calculator.
- Every assumption above is an editable input. Defaults are mid-range; lower them and the model gets more conservative. All maths runs in your browser.
These are illustrative results, not promises. Some clients see more, some less. The point is a defensible starting estimate to validate the investment.
Deliberately not modelled: retention improvement (Playbooks typically cut turnover too), faster sales cycles, and capacity recovered (founder time freed for higher-value work). The 3-year figure also assumes benefits persist with light upkeep. Real ROI is usually higher than this calculator shows.
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