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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 · Theo's mailbox · every email read

Theo's year in email

Purchasing, operations and scheduling take 87% of Theo's email time. Three stages repeat with client after client, all of them every month, and 99 hours of the work could run on their own or become a quick check.

Emails
16,21057 on a typical weekday
Hours of email
541About 10 hours a week
Answered within a day
81%61% within the hour
Hours that could change
9965 run on their own, 34 become a quick check

Emails per month

sent and received, counted once
March, busiest: 1,994
Oct
Nov
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Jan
Feb
Mar
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May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep

Where the time goes

All areas
Purchasing282 h
Operations115 h
Scheduling73 h
Facilities17 h
Finance10 h
Tax8 h

How the work flows: three stages every client goes through

Runs on its ownYou approveStays with youSomeone else
JobWhat it needsHours a yearFrom now on
Supplier order follow-upA shared record104
Site visit deskA shared record16
Invoice remindersA shared record8

Who Theo works with

emails between teammates

Writes to Theo

MMaya1,288DDev1,034RRosa330IIris214

Theo writes to

MMaya1,842RRosa388DDev274IIris190

Hand-offs inside the team

11,692 emails between the six
TheoMaya
1,842
MayaTheo
1,288
DevTheo
1,034
TheoRosa
388
RosaTheo
330

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