Found Budget Calculator
You're already spending it. And leaving more on the table.
Two panels. The first shows the workforce admin cost you're carrying right now. The second shows the revenue you're leaving on the table through bench days and billing leakage. The reframe isn't "can we afford Steer." It's "can we afford to keep doing it this way."
Panel 1 — Cost you're carrying
Workforce admin you're already paying for.
Tell us about your team.
Three inputs. Live answer. PH industry benchmarks fill in the rest.
Total people you run payroll for (employees + local contractors)
Time your ops lead spends untangling payroll + timesheets each month
Your Found Budget
per year — what you're already spending on the inefficient way of doing this, minus what Steer would cost.
See the breakdown
- Stack cost (tools + ancillary)
- ₱282,000
- Reconciliation time
- ₱144,000
- Year-end cleanup
- ₱53,500
- HR support time (deflected by self-service)
- ₱213,192
HR-support uses PH benchmarks: ~1.5 routine requests/emp/month, ~18 min HR time per request, ₱1,200/hr loaded HR rate, 70% deflected by self-service. Project-margin-error is omitted from the quick calc — the full diagnostic adds it once we know your billing model.
How honest is this? Numbers come from PH industry benchmarks (Sprout/JustPayroll list pricing, ops-lead loaded rates, year-end accountant fees, HR generalist rates). Your actual situation will vary — higher or lower. The formula and benchmarks are in the source.
Found Budget is the spread, not pure savings. Steer Workforce is real spend. The number above is the difference between what you're spending now (visibly + invisibly) and what Steer would cost. You're not getting it for free; you're paying for it more deliberately.
Panel 2 — Revenue you're leaving on the table
Bench days and billing leakage — the upside lever.
Cost savings are one half of the conversation. For project-driven firms, bench utilization and billing efficiency move bigger numbers. Tighter visibility on who's billable when, and on which billable hours actually make it to an invoice, is where most consulting and agency P&Ls have the most slack.
The other half: revenue you're already leaving on the table.
For project-driven firms, bench and billing efficiency move more money than cost savings do. Tell us about your billable team.
People who bill clients (consultants, lawyers, devs, designers — exclude back-office)
What you charge clients per billable hour, blended across roles
Days of idle time recovered through better project pipeline + alumni pool
Share of currently-lost billable hours that Phantom Timesheet + Anomaly Detection capture
Annual revenue recovered
per year — billable hours captured that today leak to write-offs, plus bench days converted back into revenue.
Assumptions
- 1,800 billable hours/year per FTE (PH professional services standard)
- 70% utilization target on billable hours
- 10% of billable hours currently leak (forgotten, vague, written down)
- 8 hours per working day for bench-days math
Different confidence level. The cost panel uses observable benchmarks (tool prices, hours, rates). The revenue panel uses operational improvement assumptions (recovery rate, bench days saved). Both numbers are honest; the upside number is a forecast, not a measurement. Dial the sliders to your own conviction.
Want a personalized version? The full diagnostic (8 questions, ~3 minutes, PDF report sent to you) is in the works. Join the waitlist and we'll send it as soon as it's ready.
The reframe.
Most software pitches sound like: "We cost ₱X. Here's the value."
That's a question your CFO has to defend.
Found Budget asks a different question: "You're already spending ₱X on the inefficient way. Want to redirect it?"
That one your CFO can answer.