Keep calendar bloat from scaling with headcount
Every department's meetings priced on the same basis, side by side, with a review cycle that brings each standing meeting back for a decision. Large-group meetings are where cost compounds fastest, so that is where the standard starts.
Sample data. Your numbers come from your own calendar.
Your recurring all-hands
What a large-group standing meeting costs
Pre-set for a company-wide update. Adjust it to yours.
Every time it runs
$1,200
Per year
$27,600
Hours per year
276
Nothing you enter here is saved.
Ways to cut it
- Shorten it from 1 hr to 45 min$6,900/yr
- Drop 2 attendees from the invite$4,600/yr
- Move it from biweekly to monthly$13,200/yr
One basis
Every department priced the same way
A cross-functional sync is only comparable if everyone in it is priced by one rule. Hourari gives each person a role, turns the role's salary into an hourly rate over 2,080 working hours, and multiplies it by your overhead for benefits and payroll tax.
Every plan prices roles from default salaries; setting your own per role is on Business, where sub-teams also get their own line in Cost by team. The full rule is in meeting cost tracking.
- Account executive$72,800$35$44/h
- Operations manager$83,200$40$50/h
- Marketing lead$93,600$45$56/h
- Software engineer$124,800$60$75/h
Anyone without a role or salary is priced at your fallback rate, times the same multiplier.
A standard to hold
Every standing meeting comes back for a decision
Recurring series are due for review on a cycle the owner sets, every 90 days unless changed. The organizer is asked by email, and in Slack when it is connected, and someone records an answer with one line on why. More in meeting health.
1
It comes up for review
Meeting health marks the series Review due, with what it costs a month.
2
The organizer is asked
With the person-hours it took over the last three months, and the cost if they can see costs.
3
Someone decides
Keep it, cut it back, pause it or end it. The organizer, an owner or an admin can answer.
End meetings nobody re-approves
Optional and off by default, on Team and up. A series whose organizer does not answer in time gets an end date in their calendar.
Rules before anyone sends
On Business, owners and admins set limits on size, length, notice and agenda. Plan a meeting in Hourari and a broken rule shows as a note. Nothing is blocked.
Team budgets, shown as a percentage
The owner sets each team's budget on Business. Admins and team leads who can see costs follow it as a percentage, never the amount.
What else operations gets
Google and Outlook, side by side
Teams on either calendar are priced on the same basis, and connect once each. Nobody types anything in.
Pay stays private
Salaries are never shown to members. Costs can be hidden from any role, which then sees person-hours instead.
A weekly digest in Slack
Last week’s meeting cost and the five most expensive meetings, posted to the channel you choose.
Budgets with an early warning
A monthly budget with alerts at the thresholds you choose, and a warning while the month is only on pace to go over.
Agenda firewall
On Business, an expensive meeting with no agenda gets questioned before it starts. It is never cancelled for you.
Exports for the quarterly review
Meetings as CSV and the insights report as PDF, so the numbers travel into the deck that needs them.
More from Hourari
Meeting cost tracking
Put a price on every meeting
Cost before you send
See the price while you write the invite
Meeting health
Score recurring meetings for waste
Cost trends
Track spending over time
Budgets & alerts
Hear about it before the month runs over
Agenda firewall
Question costly meetings with no agenda
One view of meeting cost across every team
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