Calculated across six everyday tasks
Chasing and follow-up
Invoices, payments, documents, and leads or clients who haven't replied.
Invoicing and accounts
Raising invoices, reconciling payments, keeping books straight.
Inbox and enquiries
Sorting, forwarding and answering the same routine emails.
Retyping between apps
Moving the same information between apps and spreadsheets.
Writing from scratch
Quotes, proposals and follow-ups written from scratch each time.
Scheduling
The back-and-forth of arranging and confirming appointments.
How it works
Sixteen multiple choice questions about where the hours go in your business. The maths is conservative and shown in full.
Answer 16 questions
Where do the hours go each week? Multiple choice, no prep, and it takes about 3 minutes.
See your number
Your number on screen: hours a week going on manual work, across you and your team.
Get your three tasks
You'll see three tasks AI should take off your plate first, ranked by how many hours each one takes.
IT ONLY TAKES 3 MINUTES
You're not too busy. You're doing work you shouldn't be doing.
Find out how many hours a week it is taking. Sixteen questions, three minutes, and the three tasks to take off your plate first.
Free, no prep, nothing to upload.
Why this is worth 3 minutes
UK small business owners spend an average of 11 hours a week on admin and finance tasks, roughly six working days a month. On winning new work, they manage just 3.6 days.
More than half say paperwork gets in the way of running the business, and over a third say their own lack of capacity is the biggest thing holding back growth.
The Hidden Hours Score puts your number on it.
Source: American Express and Small Business Saturday UK, SME Business Barometer, 2026.
