What every contract you draft by hand costs you.

Move the sliders to your real numbers. Output is annual time-savings plus avoided lawyer fees plus the dispute risk you stop carrying.

Contracts you draft per month 6

Service agreements, NDAs, SOWs, change orders. Anything you would otherwise pay a lawyer for or copy-paste from a prior project.

Hours per contract today 2.5

Total time: pulling the old version, editing, getting it signed, archiving. Most freelancers underestimate this.

Your effective hourly rate $125

What an hour of your time is worth. Use your billable rate, not your "free time" rate.

Lawyer fee you avoid per custom contract $650

Average paid lawyer fee for a custom contract you can now generate yourself. Set 0 if you never paid a lawyer.

Custom contracts you would have used a lawyer for / yr 3

Engagements over a threshold where you would otherwise have paid a lawyer to draft.

Dispute / chargeback risk avoided per yr $1,800

Estimated annual exposure from missing or ambiguous contract terms. Conservative anchor is one $X dispute every 18 months.

Inkwell monthly cost $29

Solo $29. Agency $79.

Annual impact

Contracts / yr72

Hours saved / yr (Inkwell saves ~80%)144

Time savings value$18,000

Lawyer fees avoided$1,950

Dispute risk avoided$1,800

Inkwell annual cost$348

contracts/yr = contracts/mo * 12 time_saved = contracts/yr * hrs * 0.80 (Inkwell collapses ~80% of drafting time) time_$ = time_saved * rate lawyer_$ = custom_contracts * lawyer_fee inkwell_$ = monthly * 12 net = time_$ + lawyer_$ + risk - inkwell_$

Net annual impact

+$21,402

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