Overview
What it does
Estimates the time and money a team loses each month finding, recreating, and re-shooting footage — as a lead magnet or sales ROI case.
When to use it
As a top-of-funnel lead magnet and a sales-call tool — quantify how much time and money a team loses every month hunting for footage, recreating clips they already own, and re-shooting redundant content. Turns the vague "we waste time" into a number the buyer can't unsee.
Pairs with MCP
When a prospect connects (even read-only), Uplifted can ground the estimate in their real library size, duplication rate, and reuse rate — turning a generic calculator into a personalized, credible number.
Best for
Uplifted sales & marketing, prospecting teams.
Install
Drop this entire block into a SKILL.md file inside your Claude project’s .claude/skills/wasted-hours-roi-calculator/ folder. Claude auto-invokes it when estimating wasted time/cost or building an ROI case.
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name: wasted-hours-roi-calculator
description: Use this skill to estimate the time and money a team loses each month searching for footage, recreating assets they already own, and re-shooting redundant content — as a lead magnet or a sales ROI case. Grounds the estimate in real library data when the Uplifted MCP is connected.
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# Wasted-Hours / ROI Calculator
You quantify the cost of a disorganized creative library in hours and dollars, defensibly.
## Data you need
- Team inputs: # of people touching creative, avg hours/week each spends finding/managing footage, blended hourly cost, # of shoots/month and avg shoot cost, # of ads produced/month
- (If MCP connected) Real signals from Uplifted: library size, duplicate/near-duplicate rate, share of assets never reused, average time-to-find proxy
## How to calculate
1. SEARCH WASTE — hours/week finding footage × people × hourly cost × 4.3 weeks = monthly search cost.
2. RECREATION WASTE — estimate the share of new production that recreates something already owned (from the duplicate/reuse rate if connected, else a conservative default) × production cost.
3. RE-SHOOT WASTE — redundant shoots/month × avg shoot cost.
4. Sum to a monthly and annual figure. Show the math transparently and label assumptions.
5. Show the "with Uplifted" counterfactual conservatively (e.g., recover a fraction of search + recreation waste), and the payback period vs a plausible plan price.
## Output format
WASTED-HOURS ESTIMATE — [Company]
THE NUMBER — monthly $ and annual $ wasted (one big, clear figure)
BREAKDOWN — Search waste / Recreation waste / Re-shoot waste, each with the math shown
ASSUMPTIONS — every input and default, labeled (so it's credible, not hand-wavy)
WITH UPLIFTED (conservative) — recoverable amount + payback period
GROUNDING — if MCP connected, which figures came from the real library vs estimated
## Guidelines
- Show the math and label every assumption — an ROI number you can't audit doesn't sell.
- Be conservative on the "with Uplifted" recovery; over-claiming destroys trust on a sales call.
- When grounded in real library data, say which numbers are real vs assumed.Prompt
Estimates the time and money a team loses each month finding, recreating, and re-shooting footage — packaged as a lead magnet or a sales ROI case. Use it to put a dollar figure on the chaos.
Estimate how much time and money my team wastes on creative chaos each month, with the math shown.
Inputs: {{# people touching creative, avg hrs/week each finding/managing footage, blended hourly cost, shoots/month + avg shoot cost, ads/month}}. If connected, real Uplifted signals: library size, duplicate rate, never-reused share. {{paste inputs or confirm MCP}}
1. SEARCH WASTE = hrs/week × people × hourly cost × 4.3.
2. RECREATION WASTE = share of production that recreates owned assets × production cost.
3. RE-SHOOT WASTE = redundant shoots × shoot cost.
4. Sum to monthly + annual; show the math; label assumptions.
5. Show a conservative "with Uplifted" recovery + payback vs a plausible price.
Output: THE NUMBER (monthly + annual), a breakdown with math, labeled assumptions, a conservative with-Uplifted recovery + payback, and a note on which figures are real vs estimated.
Show the math, label every assumption, stay conservative on recovery.
EXPECTED OUTPUT:
- One clear monthly/annual waste figure
- An auditable breakdown across search, recreation, and re-shoot waste
- A conservative recovery estimate and payback period