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The cost of meetings
Your team will spend 34,500 hours in meetings this year. That's roughly $2.2M a year — and about $897K of it is wasted.
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Why it matters
Meetings quietly become the most expensive — and least accountable — line item on your calendar.
The numbers above aren’t abstract. Every recurring sync, status update, and “quick call” compounds across a year — multiplied by every salary in the room. Most of that cost never shows up on a budget line, so it never gets questioned.
The real waste isn’t the meeting itself — it’s everything that fails to happen afterward. Decisions that aren’t captured. Action items that quietly disappear. Follow-ups that get reconstructed from memory days later. The conversation ends, and the value leaks out of the room with it.
Earmark exists to close that gap. It captures what was said, surfaces the decisions and commitments that matter, and turns every meeting into durable, searchable record instead of a cost you can’t account for. The meeting still happens — it just finally pays for itself.
Turn meetings into your most productive hour.
Earmark records, summarizes, and tracks every commitment — so the time you spend in meetings actually adds up to something.