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The coordination tax

Your bottleneck isn’t crews. It’s the coordination tax.

Most firms read the bottleneck as a labor shortage and hire into it. The real drain is coordination — your hours, slow collection, avoidable re-trips. Move the sliders. It shows its work.

◆ Coordination tax · estimateit shows its work
Your firm
Estimated annual coordination tax
Owner coordination time
12 hrs/wk × 48 wks × $150/hr
$86,400/yr
AR drag (slow collection)
30 days over 30 × daily revenue × 10%/yr
$16,438/yr
Field rework / re-trips
4 crews × 6 re-trips/yr × $650
$15,600/yr
Coordination tax$118,438/yr
Conservatively recoverable
$59,219/yr

Estimate from your inputs + the stated assumptions above — not a quote. AR drag uses a 10%/yr cost of capital on collection beyond 30 days; rework assumes 6 avoidable re-trips per crew per year. The recoverable band (40–60%; midpoint shown) is a modeling assumption — to be validated through paid pilots, not a measured result — and it varies by firm.

Why it’s a tax, not a shortage

A coordination shortage that masquerades as a labor shortage.

The Principal re-keys field numbers at nine at night, the ALTA/NSPS sits on a client for a week nobody clocked, the re-stake costs a second truck roll. None of that is a missing surveyor — it’s the work between the work, paid in owner hours and float and fuel. Hiring doesn’t fix it; it just adds another person to coordinate.

Khetvar runs that coordination so the tax stops compounding — dispatch, billing review, client follow-up, the on-site QC check — with the licensed surveyor supervising every call.

Recover it

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