Protect the focus your best work depends on
Cross-functional syncs scatter a maker's week into pieces too short to design in. Hourari prices every one of them, shows each person their meeting hours against a target, and keeps a quiet day quiet.
Sample data. Your numbers come from your own calendar.
Your daily-ish sync
What a high-frequency standup costs a cross-functional squad
Pre-set for a product & design pod. Tune it to your own.
Every time it runs
$495
Per year
$68,310
Hours per year
621
Nothing you enter here is saved.
Ways to cut it
- Shorten it from 45 min to 35 min$17,078/yr
- Drop 2 attendees from the invite$22,770/yr
- Move it from 3× / week to 2× / week$22,770/yr
Weekly meeting hours
A ceiling on the week, not a stopwatch on the person
An owner or admin sets the most meeting hours a week they'd like each person to have. Everyone then sees their own week against it on Overview, Monday to Sunday, including meetings still to come. Declined meetings don't count.
Owners and admins see how many people are over, never who. It works whether or not your workspace shows costs, sends no alerts and never touches a calendar. Team plan and up.
Everyone sees their own week
Here, 8 hours is the target and the week is already past it, before Friday's readout has happened.
Admins see a count, never names
Enough to know whether the target is realistic for the team, without turning it into a league table of people.
Quiet days
Keep one day free, and see when it slips
Pick a weekday the company keeps free of internal meetings. Hourari never declines or moves anything; it shows when the day is kept and when it isn't, so the rule doesn't wear away quietly.
Each team gets a streak of weeks kept in a row and a focus score for last week. Teams are compared; people never are. Meetings with customers or candidates don't count as breaks. Business plan and up.
Quiet days · teams
- Product4 weeks66%0
- Design5 weeks71%1
- Engineering2 weeks58%2
Quiet days · this week
1:1
Thursday
Organized by a product manager · 30 min · 2 people
Interruption cost $192
Twice the meeting's cost, for the focus it breaks up.
Stepping out
Declining a sync is a saving, not a snub
Decline on your calendar through Hourari and it is a real RSVP: the organizer is told, the meeting goes ahead for everyone else, and your seat comes off its cost straight away. The time counts as a saving under declined seats, in your reports and in the Monday digest.
On the Business plan, the agenda firewall asks for an agenda on costly meetings that have none, and offers invitees that decline in one tap.
45 min
each time
3
times a week
$96
loaded rate an hour
$216
back every week
Only that one seat comes off; the sync still runs for the others. The owner sees what the seat cost, and everyone else sees it at the workspace's blended rate, so nobody's pay can be worked out from it.
What the squad gets without changing how it works
Nothing to fill in
Hourari reads the Google or Outlook calendar the team already uses and prices every meeting on it.
Recurring syncs, reviewed
Meeting health lists every standing meeting with what it costs a month and brings it back for a decision. Team plan and up.
Pay stays private
Costs can be hidden from any role. Someone who cannot see them sees person-hours instead.
Price before you send
The Outlook add-in shows what a meeting will cost while the invite is still being written. Team plan and up.
The week in Slack
Last week’s meeting cost and the five most expensive meetings, posted to the channel you choose. Team plan and up.
Trends, month to month
See whether the squad’s meeting load is going up or down, and which meetings moved it. Team plan and up.
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
Give your squad its focus back
Free for up to 5 people. Every workspace starts with 14 days of the paid features, no credit card.