VBOG · Ops Tax Calculator
What's your
Ops Tax?
Find out how much it's costing you to run your business instead of growing it. Takes 3 minutes. No fluff, just math.
15+ hrsFreed per week on avg
2–3×Revenue growth in 12mo
$120K MRRFrom $15K in 10 months
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Your Business Basics
The numbers I need to calculate your real cost. Optional fields make it more accurate — leave blank if you're unsure.
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) Your average monthly revenue. If it varies month to month, use a 3-month average.
$25,000
Business Type
Team Size (excluding you) Everyone on your team: employees, contractors, part-time. Include PMs in this number — don't subtract them.
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How many Project Managers are on your team? PMs who actively manage projects and team members day-to-day. Benchmark: 1 PM per 8 non-PM staff is the optimal span of control. We'll calculate the gap.
Avg Monthly Contract Value (per client) What a typical client pays per month. Used to calculate the revenue you can't pursue because you're too busy to sell.
$3,000
Annual Revenue Growth Rate
Optional — Improves Accuracy
PM Annual Salary (optional)
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Defaults to $95K if left blank
Avg Team Member Salary (optional)
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Defaults to $55K if left blank
Gross Profit Margin (optional) Revenue minus direct costs (team salaries, contractors, software). Typically 40–70% for service businesses. Used to show effective profit rate alongside revenue rate. Opportunity cost calculations use revenue rate.
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Typical range: 40–70% for agencies and consulting firms
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How Are You Spending Your Time?
Move the sliders to match your typical workday. All your allocated hours must add up to your total — the meter below shows you where you are.
Total hours you work per day
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Hours allocated
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⚠ Allocated hours exceed your total. Reduce one or more sliders before continuing.
Hours on sales & growth per day Actual selling, business development, outreach, and strategy. Not delivery meetings or internal calls about client work.
1.5 hrs
Hours doing delivery / fulfillment yourself per day Time you personally spend doing client work — writing, building, consulting, producing. Work your team should be owning. If you're doing this alongside your team, it signals a delegation gap, not just a capacity problem.
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Hours reviewing / approving team work per day
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Hours in standups & internal meetings per day
1.5 hrs
Hours firefighting / reacting per day Unplanned team questions, ad-hoc client escalations, urgent fixes. Time that wasn't on your calendar this morning.
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Your Founder Revenue Rate
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MRR × 12 ÷ annual working hours — the ceiling value of your time in revenue terms
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Quick Health Check
Nine questions. Answer honestly — the math only works if you do.
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Your Monthly Ops Tax
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every month you stay in the weeds
Hard Cash Leaking Now
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Real money leaving your business every month — process gaps, PM overhead, reactive chaos.
Growth You're Blocking
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The company you're not building — founder hours trapped in ops instead of growth.
12-Month Cost of Staying Stuck
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if nothing changes this year
MRR You Could Be Adding
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if you focused on growth instead of ops
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What's Making Up Your Ops Tax
Top Revenue Leakage Factors
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