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What Is Your Technology Really Costing?

Most owners can see the monthly developer bill. The harder cost lives in rework, missed deadlines, technical debt, downtime, and delayed decisions. Use this as a practical estimate of your three-year technology cost.

Plain Read:

The point is not a perfect forecast. The point is to make avoidable cost visible enough for a better leadership decision.

Calculate Your True Technology Cost

Your Current Situation

$2K $50K

Salaries, contractors, agencies combined

0 40

Time spent on rework, patches, firefighting

0 24

Site/app outages, unavailability

0 12

Per incident: Wrong tech choice, architecture mistakes

0 20/year

Bugs, slow performance, missing features

The Reality

What You See (Annual)

Developer costs you're aware of

Hidden Costs (Annual)

Bug fixes & rework:
Downtime losses:
Decision delays:
Customer churn:
Technical debt tax:
Total Hidden:

of your true cost may not appear in the monthly invoice

True Annual Technology Cost

3-Year Cost Projection

Assuming 15% annual compound of hidden costs

What This Means

If this estimate shows six-figure hidden cost, the issue may be the leadership layer around technology: ownership, prioritization, architecture, accountability, and the timing of technical decisions.

Fractional CTO services typically cost $48K-$120K/year and can reduce avoidable rework by improving architecture, accountability, sequencing, vendor oversight, and owner-side decision quality.

Talk Through the Cost Drivers

30-minute call. We will identify the clearest cost drivers and the next practical owner-side decision.