Could have been an email
Could this meeting have been an email?
Paste the invite or type the details. You get a 0 to 100 estimate of how likely it is that an email would have done the job, next to what the meeting cost.
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Costs on this page are estimates built from our own deliberately conservative salary assumptions, not payroll data and not an official statistic.
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Your meeting's estimated cost prints here — with the odds it should've been an email.
What pushes the score up or down
The score is a transparent heuristic, not a judgement of your team. It reads the invite, nothing else:
- Words in the title or agenda that signal one-way information (status, update, recap, FYI) raise it, and ones that signal real-time work (decision, workshop, interview, brainstorm, incident) lower it. Keyword detection reads English and Spanish, with or without accents.
- More than three attendees raise it, up to a cap: a big room leans towards broadcast, which is what email is for.
- Meetings of an hour or more with no real-time-work signal raise it, and so does any recurring meeting.
- No agenda raises it a little.
A worked example
A recurring 60-minute meeting with 6 people and no agenda, with a title that matches no keyword, still scores 76 out of 100 from headcount, length, recurrence and the missing agenda alone. It costs 197 € each time under our assumptions: about 9.062 € a year.
| Group | People | Cost per hour each | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 4 | 27,36 € | 109,45 € |
| Senior | 1 | 38,31 € | 38,31 € |
| Lead / Manager | 1 | 49,25 € | 49,25 € |
| Whole meeting (60 min) | 197 € | ||
How to read the result
A high score is a prompt to ask whether the meeting needs to happen live, not a verdict. A short written update does not replace a conversation that needs people to react to each other. The score cannot see what is said in the room.