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What is your DM inbox actually costing you?

Move the sliders to match your studio. Every number below is computed live — and you can open the exact math. Nothing here is a guess dressed up as a stat.

Inquiry DMs per day · studio-wide 8

140

Artists in your studio 3

110

Average session price €220

€60€800

No-shows / reschedules · per month 4

020

Hours & revenue co-muse hands back

live

10.2 hrs / week · per artist

30.6 hrs / week · whole studio

Redeploy a quarter of those hours into chair time and your studio recovers this much every month — before counting a single ghosted inquiry co-muse saves.

€2,432

/mo

DM triage & inquiry handling56 DMs/wk · 9 min avg · 85% recovered

7.1 hrs

Quoting back-and-forth19.6 quotes/wk · 6 min avg

1.7 hrs

No-show & reschedule chasing4 / month · 25 min each

0.4 hrs

Deposit follow-up40% of quotes need a nudge · 4 min

0.5 hrs

Review & reputation repliesflat weekly allowance

0.5 hrs

weekly inquiries8 × 7 = 56
→ real quotes (35%)19.6
DM handling56 × 9min × 0.85
quoting19.6 × 6min × 0.85
no-shows(4/4.33wk) × 25min
deposit nudges19.6 × 40% × 4min
reviewsflat 0.5h
per artist / week10.21 hrs
× 3 artist(s)30.64 hrs
recaptured → chair (25%)2.55h/wk/artist
÷ 3h session × 4.33 wks3.69 sessions/mo/artist
× €220 × 3 artists€2,432/mo

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Deliberately conservative · assumes only 25% of recovered admin time converts to billable chair time