Every recurring status meeting has a price: attendees × time × salary. Enter your numbers and see the yearly cost of that one meeting — then decide if the meeting is still worth its slot.
Everyone in the room (or on the call) counts.
That's $58/hour per person (salary ÷ 2,080 hours).
Plus whatever it takes to get back to focused work.
How often this status meeting repeats.
This one status meeting costs your team
$24,000
per year, in salary alone
Cost per meeting
$462
Cost per week
$462
Cost per month
$2,000
8 attendees × 60 min × $58/hr × 1x/week × 52 weeks. Salary cost only — no overhead, no context-switching.
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“My team spends ~$24,000/year on status meetings. Calculate yours: https://brain-flow.ai/tools/status-meeting-cost-calculator”
BrainFlow costs $19.90/month — 100.5× less than this one meeting.
BrainFlow reads the email threads it's CC'd on and answers status questions by email or chat — so the update happens without the meeting. Free for 7 days.
It compounds quietly
One hour-long meeting with eight people, once a week, is roughly 416 person-hours a year — more than twenty full working weeks. Nobody approves that spend; it just repeats.
Salary is the floor
The calculator counts salary only. Add benefits, preparation, follow-ups, and fragmented focus around the meeting, and the true cost runs well above the number shown.
The update can be free
If the meeting exists to broadcast status, the same information already lives in email threads. BrainFlow assembles it on demand — by email or chat — for $19.90/month.
CC BrainFlow on the threads where work happens. Status questions get answered by email or chat — sourced, current, and without a calendar invite.
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