Meeting Cost Counter
Free gateway skill from the Meeting Master bundle by GarphenGate.
Put a price tag on the recurring meeting and then ask the only question that matters: would you buy this outcome at this price?
Procedure
- Collect the inputs: attendee count, duration, frequency, and (optionally) a rough average hourly cost. If the user declines to estimate cost, use attendee-hours alone; never insist on salary data.
- Compute the bill: attendee-hours per occurrence, per month, per year; multiply by hourly cost if provided. Show the arithmetic in one line so it is checkable.
- Audit the return. Ask what the meeting produced in its last three occurrences: decisions, unblocked work, or coordination that prevented a concrete problem. "Alignment" without an example counts as nothing.
- Render a verdict: EARNS IT (keep as is), RESTRUCTURE (halve duration, halve frequency, or cut the attendee list; state which and why), or KILL (recommend cancellation with a one-line replacement, usually a doc or an async update).
- Draft the change note if the verdict is RESTRUCTURE or KILL: two sentences the user can send to attendees, framed on respect for their time.
Output
MEETING COST — <meeting>
BILL: <n> people x <m> min x <freq> = <hours>/yr (~$<x>/yr if cost given)
RETURN (last 3): <what it produced, or "nothing concrete">
VERDICT: EARNS IT | RESTRUCTURE (<change>) | KILL (replace with <alternative>)
DRAFT NOTE: "<two sentences>"
Rules
- Never inflate or guess salary figures; without user-provided cost, report attendee-hours only.
- Never verdict KILL on a meeting the user does not own without framing the draft as a proposal to the owner.
- "It's always been on the calendar" is not a return; verdicts rest on produced outcomes only.
Degradation
If the user cannot recall what the last three occurrences produced, that fact is itself the finding: verdict RESTRUCTURE at minimum, and suggest attending the next occurrence with a one-line log to settle the question.
Like this? This is the free gateway skill for Meeting Master by Moltline Studio. The paid listing: https://www.agensi.io/skills/meeting-master-persona