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Fernhill
Year 12 · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026
OverviewClients and partnersBack officeWhere time goesJobs6Tools and softwareTeam6Hand-offsWhat waitsProjects
Jobs
Quote drafts122 hPermit checks64 hSupplier orders188 hSite visit desk151 hClient update46 hInvoice reminders97 h
Sample audit
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Overview
Fernhill Studio · Dev's mailbox · every email read

Dev's year in email

Scheduling, operations and purchasing take 77% of Dev's email time. Four stages repeat with client after client, all of them every month, and 89 hours of the work could run on their own or become a quick check.

Emails
12,47045 on a typical weekday
Hours of email
430About 8 hours a week
Answered within a day
84%65% within the hour
Hours that could change
8964 run on their own, 25 become a quick check

Emails per month

sent and received, counted once
June, busiest: 1,536
Oct
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Where the time goes

All areas
Scheduling197 h
Operations80 h
Purchasing54 h
Tax54 h
Facilities19 h
Finance6 h

How the work flows: four stages every client goes through

Runs on its ownYou approveStays with youSomeone else
JobWhat it needsHours a yearFrom now on
Site visit deskA shared record62
Permit status checksOne routine30
Supplier order follow-upA shared record27
Weekly client updateOne routine6

Who Dev works with

emails between teammates

Writes to Dev

TTheo274MMaya220RRosa118IIris58

Dev writes to

TTheo1,034MMaya610RRosa160IIris72

Hand-offs inside the team

11,692 emails between the six
DevTheo
1,034
DevMaya
610
TheoDev
274
MayaDev
220
DevRosa
160

Maya is the hub. The two busiest lanes end with Maya, and the claim held on all 200 reshuffles of the data. See every lane