THE COORDINATION
TAX CALCULATOR
Your team spends hours every week routing information between tools and people. That glue work has a real cost. Calculate yours.
Based on McKinsey research: employees spend 1.8 hours/day searching for information they need to do their job.
How much is coordination costing you?
Adjust the sliders to match your team. See what you're really spending on the glue work between people and tools.
Your Coordination Tax
Annual cost of glue work
$293K
/year in coordination labor
$24K
Per Month
4.5
FTE Equivalent
9,360
Hours/Year Lost
8.1x
ROI vs Alacritous
Save $257K/year by replacing coordination labor
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Where Does the Coordination Tax Come From?
Information Routing
Someone asks a question in Slack. You check Asana for the status, pull the number from the CRM, reference the email thread, and paste the answer back. That's coordination labor — and it happens dozens of times daily.
Context Rebuilding
McKinsey found employees spend 1.8 hours per day searching for information they need to do their job. That's not productive work — it's rebuilding context that should already be available.
Dashboard Fatigue
72% of dashboard users abandon them for spreadsheets (Luzmo, 2025). The tools that were supposed to help are now part of the problem — more screens to check, more data to reconcile.
Knowledge Loss
When a key employee leaves, months of client context, process knowledge, and relationship history walks out the door. You don't just lose a person — you lose institutional memory.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is coordination tax?
Coordination tax is the hidden cost of human glue work — time spent routing information between tools, chasing updates, and doing administrative work that connects systems and people. Research shows it consumes 20-40% of operational capacity in most businesses.
How much does coordination labor cost a business?
For a 15-person team with an average operations salary of $65,000, coordination labor typically costs $292,000-$585,000 per year (assuming 12-24 hours per week per person spent on coordination). McKinsey research found employees spend 1.8 hours per day just searching for information.
How can I reduce coordination costs?
AI orchestration replaces coordination labor by handling the routing of information between tools and people. Instead of humans acting as the glue between systems, autonomous agents coordinate through Slack — at a fraction of the cost of additional headcount.
Is $3,000/month worth it for my team size?
Use the calculator above to see the exact comparison. For most teams of 10+, the coordination tax exceeds $200K/year — meaning Alacritous pays for itself within the first month. For smaller teams (5-10), the ROI is driven by reclaimed founder time rather than pure headcount savings.
Go Deeper
The Full ROI Thesis — Economics of AI Orchestration
Interactive calculators, staffing arbitrage, payback timeline
Alacritous vs Zapier — Why Stateless Automation Falls Short
Side-by-side comparison of coordination approaches
Institutional Memory — How the Knowledge Graph Compounds Value
Why context is the missing layer in your operations