Free tool — meeting cost

Meeting cost calculator

A meeting is headcount × wages × time. Price a single recurring meeting, project it across a year, and see what written notes could win back.

The meeting

5 people
$50/h
60 min
30%
Everyone talksTypical status callBroadcast meeting
This meeting costs
$250

every single time it runs

Per year at this cadence
3× per week, 52 weeks
$39,000
Person-hours consumed per year
780 h
If 30% attended by notes instead
they skim a written summary instead of sitting through it
$8,775/yr back

Assumes attendees who switch to notes still spend about a quarter of the meeting length reading the summary, so 75% of their seat cost is recovered. Rates are gross hourly cost of attendance. All math runs in your browser.

Write the update, skip the meeting

The Hidden Cost of Synchronous Meetings

When a manager schedules a “quick sync,” the calendar block hides the real price. A 1-hour meeting with 8 senior engineers doesn't cost one hour — it costs 8 hours of highly-paid engineering capacity. Recurring meetings multiply that by 52.

Harvard Business Review has reported that 71% of senior managers view meetings as unproductive and inefficient. The fix isn't abolishing meetings — it's shrinking the attendance list. Invite the people who need to decide; give everyone else a written summary they can read in a tenth of the time.

Turn spoken updates into written ones

The reason status meetings survive is that writing the update feels slow. That's a typing problem, not a communication problem. With CoScript, you press a hotkey and speak — your update lands as clean, AI-formatted text in Slack, email, or your docs at up to 200 words per minute. A five-minute spoken brief replaces a thirty-minute meeting, and nobody has to attend anything.

CoScript for Windows

Stop typing. Start talking.

CoScript turns your voice into clean, AI-formatted text and pastes it straight into any Windows app at up to 200 words per minute — offline engine, 100+ languages, 30+ writing tones. Free to start.