What's inside
Four sections, in the order a real cost review tends to go: what you're already paying for, what it actually costs once the hidden add-ons are counted, what the manual work around it costs in staff time, and where the real recovery is.
Tool Inventory & Annual Spend
Every platform your firm pays for, seat counts, monthly cost, and currency — rolled up into one real annual number, hidden FX conversion included.
Hidden & Recurring Add-On Costs
Payment processing, onboarding, and migration fees — the costs that rarely show up on the pricing page but reliably show up on the invoice.
Manual-Task Time Cost
Common manual tasks — time-entry reconstruction, billing follow-up, document assembly, intake data entry — priced at a loaded hourly rate, weekly and annually.
Recovery Levers & Worked Example
Consolidation, disbursement recovery where your firm's own billing policy and client retainer permit it, and automation — plus one worked example with clearly fictional numbers, labelled illustrative.
Prefer to read online first? The full worksheet is also live as a page on this site — the PDF is the same tables, formatted to print with blank cells for your own numbers.