Divide revenue by hours worked. That's it. If you made $4,000 in month three and spent 60 hours, your rate is $66.67 an hour. Total revenue tells you nothing about whether the business is worth your evenings.
Here's the loop I use.
- Log every hour you touch the business. Building, marketing, support, invoices. One number per week.
- Log revenue collected, not booked. Cash that landed is the only revenue that counts.
- Divide. Revenue collected divided by hours logged. That's your real rate for the period.
- Track it monthly for 12 months on one row of a spreadsheet.
- Compare months. Early months are ugly. Weekends of setup with no sales means a low rate. That's normal, not failure.
- Watch the trend, not the first number. If month six pays more per hour than month two with the same effort, the automation is working.
The 12 systems in the Free Builder kit cover the whole loop. The free version is a 206-page PDF or an AI crawl token, no card. Paid options are the $19 AI employees guide and the 3 week program. The number you want gets honest around month four, once the early build hours stop repeating.
Record it. Adjust. Keep going.
Mouldi
