Meetings are your biggest unmanaged budget
See what every meeting costs, and catch the expensive ones before they start. Works with Google Calendar and Outlook.
Free for up to 5 people, no credit card
Sample data. Your numbers come from your own calendar.
What does your worst recurring meeting cost?
Every time it runs
$950
Per year
$43,700
Hours per year
460
Nothing you enter here is saved.
Ways to cut it
- Shorten it from 1 hr to 45 min$10,925/yr
- Drop 2 attendees from the invite$8,740/yr
- Move it from weekly to biweekly$21,850/yr
The problem
You budget software, travel, and headcount. Meetings are the line item nobody owns.
a year per employee, spent in meetings they would rather have skipped
Source: Steven Rogelberg, UNC Charlotte, with Otter.ai (2022)
of senior managers say meetings are unproductive and inefficient
Source: Harvard Business Review, "Stop the Meeting Madness" (2017)
a week in meetings, for the average person surveyed
Source: Steven Rogelberg, UNC Charlotte, with Otter.ai (2022)
Know what a meeting costs before it happens
Every event on your calendar gets a price the moment it's booked, and the price moves when someone is added or the time changes. See what a recurring meeting costs each month, and what a shorter one would save.
See exactly where the month's money went
Spend by day and by week, the meetings costing the most, and whether last month's changes stuck. One screen, no spreadsheet.
The numbers land where your team already talks
Every Monday, last week's cost, what declining reclaimed and the five most expensive meetings go to the Slack channel you choose. The conversation about cutting them happens right there.
Expensive meetings with no agenda get questioned
Over your cost threshold with no agenda, the organizer gets a Slack message well before it starts. Closer to the time, invitees can decline in one tap, and the time they get back shows up in your reports.
Sample data. Your numbers come from your own calendar.
The difference
You're already paying for these meetings. Now you can manage them.
Who ends up on the invite
Without Hourari
Eight people get invited because adding is easier than trimming.
With Hourari
You see the cost before you send the invite.
The standing meeting nobody cancels
Without Hourari
It outlives its purpose and renews forever.
With Hourari
Recurring series show their running cost, so someone has to decide.
Spend creeping up
Without Hourari
You find out at budget season.
With Hourari
Set a budget and get an alert when you cross it.
Meetings that fill the hour
Business planWithout Hourari
Everything is an hour because that’s the calendar default.
With Hourari
Recurring meetings get trimmed to your target length, 45 minutes by default.
The meeting that should have had a sign-off
Business planWithout Hourari
A costly offsite gets booked and whoever owns the budget hears about it afterwards.
With Hourari
Above your sign-off amount, the organizer is told it needs approval, and an owner or admin decides from one queue.
How it works
Connect your calendar
Google Calendar or Outlook, in about a minute.
Set an hourly rate
One rate to start. On Business, set a rate for each role.
Every meeting gets a price
Priced on your dashboard. Paid plans add a weekly report in Slack.
A note from the founder
Hourari started with one person telling us they needed meeting cost data. That stuck with us, so we built it. We're early, and what we build next depends on what you need. We read every message, so reach out anytime at hello@hourari.com.
SiMilo
Founder, Hourari
See what your meetings cost
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