Sabina · Readiness assessment
Is your company ready for Sabina?
Nine questions, under five minutes. You will see a reading on screen the moment you finish — no account, no waiting for a call back to find out where you stand.
Nine questions. Estimates are fine.
Every question feeds one of two readings — whether Sabina fits the work, and whether the operation is at a size that could carry hiring her at all. 0 of 9 answered.
On the trade question. This is the one weighted question, and the weighting is trade-first today: roofing carries two points because it is the trade her role-pack has been built against first, every other trade carries one, and a business outside the trades carries none. That is a statement about where the work is deepest right now — not that any sector is proven, and not that any is ruled out. Fit is six questions in all, and the five that are not the trade carry eight of its ten points, so an operation outside the trades can still read as a strong fit.
Your reading.
Answer all nine above and your reading appears here — the headline and what it means, on screen, before anything is asked of you.
On price. The founding rate is one number, and we quote it on the call because we take on two companies at a time.
Looking for Forge’s tools rather than a hire? The Founding Charter is a separate program, and its terms open once the nine questions above are answered. How this assessment is scored.
Separately: what is today costing you?
Put your own numbers in and see where the afternoon actually leaks — five figures you already know, plus how the phone is covered after hours. Nothing here is sent anywhere, and it has nothing to do with the reading above.
For scale, before your own numbers: a front-desk coordinator who answers every call and quotes on the spot runs about $5,500 a month fully loaded. Hold on to that figure — it is not a price, and nothing below is compared against one.
A BLS employer-cost figure, not a survey number: a $52,000 base (65th percentile for this seat at specialty trade contractors, BLS OEWS May 2025) carried at the BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation burden ratio for office and administrative support comes to $5,474 a month, published as about $5,500. Excludes software, workspace, recruiting and turnover.
What is on the table.
- 320 calls × 25% unanswered = 80 missed a month
- 80 missed × 35% close rate = 28.0 jobs
- 28.0 jobs × $4,200 = $117,600 a month
- $117,600 × 12 = $1,411,200 a year
Where the one-in-four comes from. It is the published benchmark for missed inbound calls in the trades, not a measurement of your phone. You told us calls go to voicemail after hours, so the benchmark applies squarely to your operation.
Second: speed decides who gets called back. The odds of qualifying a lead called in 5 minutes rather than 30 drop by 21 times. That is why the figure above is counted as revenue at risk rather than revenue delayed — but we do not know what share of your missed callers never return, nobody has published it, and so nothing here multiplies by one.
Third, and deliberately third: the average quote in this trade takes 42 hours to come back. Speed is worth real money, but it is the smallest of the three and we would rather under-claim it than dress it up.
And what is sitting in someone else’s account.
This is cash tied up, not revenue lost — kept separate and never added to the figure above. Mixing the two is how these calculators end up with a number nobody believes.
Fig. I — Your monthly billings spread across the days you wait for them. Both numbers are yours; we compare them to nothing.
Now the part you set yourself.
Nobody recovers all of it, and a page that implies otherwise is selling you something. So the recovery share is yours to set, and the figure below moves with it.
Starts deliberately low. We would rather you raise it than have us pick it for you.
Fig. II — Both are shares of the figure in chapter IV; neither is set against a price, because none is published on this page.
Closing that gap is the seat Sabina is hired into. The assessment at the top of this page is the first stage of hiring her, and it takes nine answers.
An estimate built from the numbers you entered, not a quote. Your figures stay in your browser; nothing on this chapter is sent anywhere. Every figure, and what this tool refuses to claim.