Each one turns something you already know — enquiries a day, minutes a quote, days to pay, questions only you can answer — into a figure you can act on. Every formula is on the page, every assumption is a slider, and every result copies as a link. They load with a real business's numbers so there is something to argue with before you type.
Most business calculators stop at the number everyone already suspects. These go one line further — the enquiries a slow method never gets to, the admin hours hiding inside a charge-out rate, the discount a buyer applies because the business is you — and they show the arithmetic so you can replace any figure with your own.
The hours a slow quoting method eats, and the peak-season enquiries it never gets to — as a hire and as revenue.
Run, height and gates in; panels, posts, gravel boards, postmix, the cut panel, a cost and a labour estimate out.
What each extra supplier asked costs in office hours by hand, and why the whole database is people, not hours.
Questions a day only you can answer, what an hour of yours is worth, and what stalls when you are away.
Planning, publishing, replans and chasing per run across the year, plus the miles a guessed order drives.
Salary to real cost for the UK, Australia or the US — first year, every year after, and per hour of work absorbed.
Take-home, overheads, profit and billable hours give the rate you need. Then what the admin inside it is costing.
What pricing from memory and a slow price-rise costs a year, in pounds and in points of margin.
Each day between enquiry and quote costs win rate. The jobs and revenue that go to whoever answered first.
The reverse pipeline — jobs, quotes, quotes a day — plus whether the quoting hours physically fit in the day.
Cash tied up past your terms, the finance on it, the chasing hours and the bad debt, as one figure.
A headline value from profit and a multiple, then the discount a buyer applies because the business is you.
Free, and nothing is stored or sent anywhere. Every calculation runs in your browser. The result is written into the page address so you can copy a link and send your exact numbers to a partner or an accountant; that link contains only the figures you typed.
From real businesses written up in the byHoratio case studies — a UK wholesale nursery, a horticultural importer, a fencing contractor and a garden-products delivery fleet. They are there so the page shows a live result before you touch anything, and so you can see the arithmetic against figures that actually happened. Replace them with your own.
As accurate as what you put in, and every formula is shown on its page so you can argue with it. Where a tool relies on an assumption — a decay rate, a multiple, a share of quotes underpriced — it is a slider, not a constant, and the page says what the default is based on. They are decision aids, not accounts, and none of it is financial, tax or legal advice.
If quoting is slow or busy days leave enquiries unanswered, the cost of standing still. If you are about to hire, the true cost of an employee. If prices live in heads or spreadsheets, the margin leak. If a normal day cannot happen without you, owner dependency. Most owners find one number they did not expect and then run the rest.
Send it to whoever signs the cheques, then measure the input you guessed — minutes per quote, days to pay, questions a day — for a real week and run it again. If the number is worth acting on, the operations audit finds the hours with evidence inside your working week, and is refunded if it cannot find at least ten a week.
The businesses the numbers come from are written up in full in the case studies, the engagement usually starts with the operations audit, and the short version of the method is on the byHoratio homepage.
The calculators estimate. The audit finds them, with evidence, inside your working week — refunded if it can't. Twenty minutes, no deck, no pitch.
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Two days inside your working week, every retyping step mapped, and a costed list of what could be collapsed.
Delivery planning, procurement, fencing quoting and wholesale order management, with the arithmetic.
Built from inside the business, shipped feature by feature, live from week one.