"What's My Time Actually Costing Me, Hour by Hour?"

Here's a question worth sitting with: if you didn't do a single job tomorrow, what would it still cost you to keep your business running? Rent, insurance, vehicle costs, admin, software, depreciation on your gear - all of it lands whether you're on the tools or not.

Most business owners have never turned that yearly figure into something they can actually use day to day. It sits as an annual number, if it's calculated at all, disconnected from the hourly rate they're charging out on the job.

This is where FoundationStone does the heavy lifting. You put in your total overheads (get your accountant to give you the number if you dont know but break it down into line items so you can then look at specific areas not just a lump number) and from that enter how many days a year your business is realistically available to work - FoundationStone takes care of the rest, breaking that figure down into a clear hourly rate. That number becomes the true cost of your time before a single dollar of profit is added, and it's the missing link between "I know my overheads" and "I know what to charge."