The Meeting Diet: Price Every Recurring Meeting, Then Keep, Shrink or Kill

Twelve people, one hour, every week, at a loaded $55/hour. That's one row of the sample audit. All eight recurring meetings together: $116,050 a year — the calendar's invoice, which no one ever sees because it's paid in payroll. This audit prints it, then forces a verdict on every line.

How it works

• The Meeting Audit — every recurring meeting priced per instance and per year. Then the verdict: Keep (it decides things), Shrink (fewer minutes, fewer people — the sheet prices the new size), or Kill
• The Diet Math — before $116,050, after $70,675: $45,375 kept and 825 person-hours (twenty working weeks of capacity) handed back — without cancelling anything anyone would miss
• The Rules — status goes in writing; no agenda by the day before = auto-cancel; 25/50-minute defaults; decision meetings cap at five people; kill kindly ("we're testing four weeks without this — flag what breaks"); re-audit quarterly, because calendars regrow

Built for

Any business with a standing-meeting calendar: agencies · startups · firms · construction offices · anyone who has watched six people take turns reading updates aloud.

What you get

One .xlsx file, four tabs, instant download. Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice. No macros, no subscription. Rates, frequencies and verdicts all yours.