A Git Digest Tool
Meeting Cost Calculator
Price the standup tax: salary × attendees × duration.
Then replace the status meeting with a GitHub digest.
The standup tax, in plain numbers
Recurring status meetings look cheap because they are on the calendar. This meeting cost calculator prices them like payroll: fully-loaded salary × attendees × duration × how often you meet.
We call that the standup tax. A 15-minute daily standup for six engineers at $100/hour is about $36,000 a year before anyone overruns the Zoom. Add the usual 1.2× overrun and you have funded a mid-level engineer to ship instead of narrate.
Git Digest replaces that ritual with team GitHub and Slack commit digests. The source of truth is what landed in git, not what people remember in a circle.
How the calculator works
Annual cost = teams × attendees × meetings per week × (minutes ÷ 60) × 48 working weeks × hourly salary × attendance × overrun. Vacation is already baked in as 48 weeks, not 52.
Use a fully-loaded hourly salary (compensation plus benefits and overhead), not the sticker wage. For a $150k engineer that is often $75 to $120/hour. Tune attendees and duration for standups, planning, or the weekly “sync” that never dies.
Meeting cost calculator FAQ
Common questions about standup cost, salary math, and replacing meetings with digests.
How does this meeting cost calculator work?
Multiply attendees by meeting duration, weekly frequency, a fully-loaded hourly salary, and 48 working weeks. Optional attendance and overrun factors model no-shows and meetings that run long. The result is the annual meeting cost: the standup tax.
What is the standup tax?
The standup tax is the fully-loaded salary cost of a recurring status meeting. A 15-minute daily standup for six engineers at $100/hour is about $36,000 a year before overrun. Git Digest replaces that ritual with commit digests in Slack or email.
How much does a daily standup cost?
Use salary × attendees × duration. Defaults model a five-person daily standup: five meetings a week, 15 minutes, $100/hour fully loaded. Adjust the sliders for your team size and loaded rate.
Can Git Digest replace our standup?
Git Digest turns GitHub activity into team commit summaries delivered to Slack and email, so engineering leads get an async standup from shipped code instead of another calendar invite.
Is Git Digest a repo ingest tool like Gitingest?
No. Gitingest turns a repository into text for LLMs. Git Digest is a team product: daily or weekly GitHub commit digests for Slack and email that replace status meetings.
Replace the standup with GitHub digests
Connect GitHub and get daily or weekly team commit summaries in Slack and email. Same alignment, none of the standup tax.
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