Capacity Calculator
What does report-publication handoff give back?
For teams publishing research monthly or quarterly, the last production step often consumes 8-15 hours per report. This page turns that hidden work into a plain capacity estimate you can use in planning or follow-up conversations.
8-15 hrs
Typical internal time per report
Monthly / quarterly
Built for recurring publishing
Planning math
Not a hard ROI claim
Calculator
Estimate the production time sitting inside your publishing calendar.
Adjust the cadence, report volume, and internal time per report. The estimate covers the publication layer: HTML or CMS build, responsive checks, accessibility cleanup, assets, downloads, and launch QA.
Publishing cadence
This equals 12 reports per year.
Use 8 for simple reports, 12 for a typical web-ready handoff, and 15 for longer, bilingual, table-heavy, or asset-heavy reports.
Optional. Use your internal hourly cost. The output is a staff-time value, not guaranteed cash savings.
Estimated capacity reclaimed
144
hours per year
Workday equivalent
19 days
Assumes 7.5 hours per focused workday.
Planning range
96-180 hrs
Based on the 8-15 hour report-publication range.
Monthly / quarterly view
12 / 36 hrs
Average hours reclaimed per month and per quarter.
Staff-time value
$12,240
At $85 per hour, using your entered currency.
Using 1 report per month at 12 internal hours per report, publication handoff represents about 144 staff hours per year (19 workdays at 7.5 hours/day). The 8-15 hour range is 96-180 hours per year. At $85/hour, that is about $12,240 in staff time value.
Assumptions
Clear enough to discuss, simple enough to sanity-check.
Scope
The estimate covers post-approval publication production: HTML or CMS build, responsive layout checks, accessibility cleanup, asset preparation, downloads, and launch QA.
Range
The default range is 8-15 internal hours per report. Simple releases may sit near the low end. Longer, bilingual, chart-heavy, or table-heavy reports usually sit higher.
Not included
Research, writing, approvals, media strategy, stakeholder briefings, and leadership review stay with the team. This only estimates the production work that can be handed off.
How to use it
The useful number is capacity, not drama.
More room for launch planning, stakeholder notes, and media outreach.
Less senior research time spent rebuilding tables, links, figures, and downloads.
A clearer case for recurring publishing support when reports ship monthly or quarterly.
Next step
If the number is meaningful, send the report count and the next deadline.
Makta Studio can scope one publication or a recurring publishing desk with the assumptions made explicit before work begins.