See what email triage actually costs you in a year. Plug in three numbers and watch the bill add up.
Math: emails per day x seconds per email x 260 working days, divided by 3600 seconds, times your hourly rate.
All calculations happen in your browser. We don’t store inputs.
How many emails you receive per day, your effective hourly rate, and how long you spend on each.
Annual seconds spent on triage, then converted to hours and dollars at your rate.
A blunt number you can compare to Rythm at $1.65 a month.
You can keep the defaults if you want a generic estimate (121 emails per day, $50 per hour, 30 seconds per email).
We hold the math local to your browser. Nothing about your inbox is sent anywhere.
A defensible internal number you can use to justify a $1.65-a-month line item.
Adjust the seconds field if you triage faster or slower than the baseline.
McKinsey put the average around 28 seconds; an attorney scanning for client matters can hit two minutes per message.
A range you can show a partner, finance team, or yourself.
This is an estimate, not an actuarial calculation. We assume 260 working days a year and that every email gets the same time slice, which is a simplification. Real triage is bursty: a low-noise morning followed by a 90-minute slog before a meeting. The number this tool returns is the steady-state cost of attention, not a precise bill. Use it to sanity-check whether a $1.65-a-month tool is worth a slot on your subscription page, not to file a tax return.
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Where the 86 hours a year actually go, and why the cost is bigger than the time.
The cognitive cost compounds. The minutes you save are not the only thing you get back.
Rythm is the inbox protection that powers this estimate. $1.65 per month. Cancel anytime.
Annual on Lightning includes one bonus month. See full pricing.
