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Cost of Chaos Calculator
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What is the chaos actually costing you?

Late weeks. Crews waiting on materials, access and each other. A finish date that keeps drifting. None of it feels like a line item — but it all lands on your margin. Put your numbers in and see the bill. Free, no sign-up.

Your Numbers

Rough figures are fine — you can defend the maths later (it's all shown in the small print).

Honestly — where are you vs the plan?

The Bill

£0the cost of chaos on this project
Delay already banked
£0
Crews waiting, from here to the end
£0
Drift still to come
£0

How Much Is Still In Play?

If waiting dropped by 50% and the drift stopped…

The Part Nobody Budgets For

None of these numbers appear on a cost report — they hide inside "prelims", "programme risk" and trade claims. Which is exactly why they rarely get examined: there's no line item prompting anyone to ask how big they've become, or what's actually driving them on this particular job.

Waiting crews and drifting dates always have causes — but they differ from project to project, and they're rarely the ones people assume. Finding the real ones takes a proper look at how work moves through your business. What this calculator can tell you is the size of the prize for doing that: whether there's enough money attached to this problem to be worth an afternoon of your attention.

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