The $5,000 question: what one workflow costs you in unbilled hours.

On fixed-fee work, avoidable admin eats your margin. Nobody bills for retyping, chasing updates, or rebuilding a tracker. The hours still get spent.

How much time does compliance paperwork take?

The agencies publish their own estimates. EPA estimates each TRI Form R takes about 36 hours, per chemical reported, including compliance checks, calculations, recordkeeping, and submission. Source: EPA ICR, OMB 2070-0212. PHMSA estimates each gas transmission and gathering annual report takes an operator about 54 hours to prepare and submit. Source: PHMSA ICR, OMB 2137-0522. Those are agency estimates for one form each, not SHIFT7 results.

How do you price one workflow?

1. Pick one recurring workflow. Example: keeping a permit and deadline register current.
2. Estimate the hours your team spends on it in a typical month, counting the retyping and the chasing.
3. Multiply by twelve for a year.
4. Multiply by your billable rate.

The result is what that workflow costs you in hours you could have billed, or given back to client work. Use your own numbers, not ours.

Where does $5,000 land?

Here is the example we use on our site: at $165 an hour, about 30 billable hours won back covers a $5,000 Sprint. That is an example rate. Your results will vary.

If the hours you would win back come in well under that, a Sprint is probably not the right fit, and we will say so. If they come in well over, that is the first workflow to fix.

What does the $5,000 buy?

One recurring workflow, built in 3 to 4 weeks, in your own Microsoft 365 or Google account. The Automation Sprint starts from $5,000 per workflow, fixed price, quoted up front. Your firm owns the build, and we document it so your team can run it.