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Close-cycle recovery

Simple day-cut model for a fast ballpark. Prefer distributions, tornado sensitivity, and bottleneck ranking? Use the Close Cycle Lab.

Close-cycle recovery
How much does a shorter month-end close free up? Conservative model — only close-tied hours, only ~55% automatable in year one.
8 people
12 days
5 days
$110,000 · ~$143,000 loaded
$176K
estimated recoverable per year · cutting 7 close days × 12 closes
~2,218hours / year
7 daysshaved off each close
12 → 5close length
8 peopleon the close

Illustrative only. We deliberately understate. A free Snapshot maps your actual close tasks and replaces this with a measured figure.

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