The Leak Sheet
What one process actually costs you a year.
One sheet, front and back. Your numbers. Twenty minutes. It ends in a decision — including permission to leave things exactly as they are.
Three steps to the number.
Pick one process
Not the biggest one. The one that annoyed you most recently.
Do the arithmetic
How often, how long, what the hour costs. Count the waiting and the re-doing, not just the typing.
Add what goes wrong
This is where most people stop too early. Work that gets redone, people held up waiting, the times a customer notices — all of it belongs in the total.
Four questions. Two are designed to stop you.
Has the process worked the same way for six months? Does the information already exist somewhere a computer can reach? Is the yearly cost bigger than a fix would cost? And what would you actually do with the time?
Fix it now · Fix it later · Leave it manual
"Leave it manual" is a good outcome. One fewer thing on the list — and it cost you nothing to find out.
I built this to find the leaks in my own business first. It is the same sheet I bring to a Feierabend-Check.
And if the number is bigger than you expected?
Most people land on a total here that surprises them, and then have no idea whether the fix is a CHF 200 tool or a CHF 20,000 project. That is what the Feierabend-Check is for.
Bring one process that annoys you.
Leave knowing what it costs you a year — and whether it's worth fixing.