Founder Hours Reclaim.

The 80% reclaim figure is what we've consistently seen across owner-operator engagements: 80% of the workflows that hit the owner's desk can be moved to the AI layer or to a non-owner team member with the right system underneath. The remaining 20% — relationships, judgment calls, high-stakes pricing — stays with the owner by design.

Opportunity cost is the dollar value of those reclaimed hours at your hourly leverage. If your hourly leverage is the price of closing one extra meaningful contract per quarter or hiring one game-changing employee, the real number is usually 2–3× what you'd put in this field. Use what feels honest.

Evenings back applies the same 80% to your working evenings — because in our experience, the owner-bottleneck workflows that eat your day spill into evenings at the same rate. Take an owner who works 4 evenings/week; reclaim 80% and you're at ~1.

What this doesn't capture: the value of being present at home, the second-order effect of a more rested owner making better decisions, and the capital value of an owner-optional business if you ever sell it. Those are real, big, and unaccountable in a single calculator.

If you're reclaiming under 200 hours/year: you're either already operating efficiently or you're under-counting your owner-bottleneck hours. Most owner-operators we work with start at 600–900 reclaimable hours.

If you're reclaiming 400–900 hours/year: the band where a Right-Hand Build pays back in months on opportunity cost alone, not counting recovered revenue. The Ops Call is worth your time.

If you're reclaiming 1,000+ hours/year: you've built a business that depends on you in a way that's costing you the next chapter. That's exactly the operator profile Right-Hand Build is designed for.