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AEROBODIESAI | PURSUIT WASTE CALCULATOR
FREE PURSUIT WASTE CALCULATOR
How Much Is “We Shouldn't Have Bid This” Costing You?
Calculate the annual cost of government-contract pursuits your team probably should have stopped earlier in about 60 seconds.
Every weak pursuit consumes more than proposal hours. It pulls in research, pricing, capture, leadership attention, consultants, travel, and executive decision-making.
Use the Pursuit Waste Calculator to estimate how much money and team capacity those late no-bid decisions may be costing your company every year.
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3 QUESTIONSABOUT 60 SECONDSPURSUIT WASTE RESULTS
YOUR SUBMITTED RESULTS
Your Pursuit Waste Analysis
Explore what your estimated pursuit spending and team capacity could mean, the patterns behind your numbers, and useful next steps for your team.
Based on your estimates, not verified losses. A lost bid is not automatically wasted effort. Annualization assumes the same monthly pattern continues for 12 months.
Your Pursuit Waste Results
YOUR ESTIMATED ANNUAL PURSUIT WASTE
An estimate based on the inputs you entered in the Pursuit Waste Calculator.
ESTIMATED MONTHLY
PURSUIT WASTE
TEAM HOURS TIED UP
EACH YEAR
ESTIMATED COST PER
WEAK PURSUIT
WEAK PURSUITS
PER YEAR
These are your estimated totals. Unlock the full analysis below to understand their potential business implications and review the assumptions behind the calculation.
UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT
What Do These Numbers Mean for Your Team?
Your numbers are the starting point. Unlock your full Pursuit Waste Analysis to understand how these estimates may relate to team capacity, earlier qualification decisions, and potential pursuit spending protected.
YOUR FULL ANALYSIS INCLUDES
- The meaning of your annual Pursuit Waste estimate
- Estimated team capacity committed to these pursuits
- The illustrative 50% earlier-identification scenario
- Leadership-ready interpretation, methodology, and assumptions
- A shareable Pursuit Waste Executive Summary
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YOUR PURSUIT WASTE ANALYSIS
What Your Results Could Mean
Your Pursuit Waste Calculator results are an illustrative estimate, not a verified loss or an industry benchmark. Here is how to interpret the figures for leadership discussion.
ANNUAL TEAM CAPACITY
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The Pattern Behind Your Estimate
Estimated exposure category
Primary modeled pattern
Annual team hours
Leadership consideration
This profile summarizes your entered assumptions using configurable editorial thresholds. It is not an industry benchmark, risk rating, or formal assessment.
What If You Identified Just Half Earlier?
If your team identified 50% of these pursuits before comparable time and money were committed, this scenario illustrates how much spending and capacity might potentially be protected.
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This 50% scenario assumes half of the estimated cost and hours could have been avoided. It is not a verified or guaranteed savings projection.
LEADERSHIP INTERPRETATION
What This Means for Your Pursuit Process
What May Be Driving Your Estimate
What Leadership Should Examine
What Earlier Identification Could Change
RECOMMENDED NEXT STEP
HOW WE CALCULATE YOUR ESTIMATE
The Pursuit Waste Calculator estimates the financial and capacity impact of pursuits you believe should have been stopped earlier.
The estimate combines: 1. The number of potentially avoidable pursuits per month. 2. Estimated team hours spent on each pursuit. 3. Estimated blended team cost per hour. 4. Any additional direct pursuit costs you choose to include.
Those figures are annualized to provide an estimated yearly pursuit-waste figure. The “50% identified earlier” calculation is an illustrative scenario showing the potential impact of identifying half of those pursuits before the same level of resources is committed.
W = pursuits/month; H = combined team hours/pursuit; R = cost/hour; D = additional direct cost/pursuit.
Annual estimate = W × [(H × R) + D] × 12.
Annual hours = W × H × 12. Each 50% scenario = the respective annual result × 0.50.
Annual estimate = W × [(H × R) + D] × 12.
Annual hours = W × H × 12. Each 50% scenario = the respective annual result × 0.50.
The model includes all time and spending entered. To model only avoidable effort, use only the hours and direct costs that could have been avoided. Do not count contractor costs in both hourly labor and direct spending. The capacity scenario is not measured cash savings or a measure of executive burnout.
MAKE THE INSIGHT SHAREABLE
Take Your Pursuit Waste Analysis Back to Your Team
Your Pursuit Waste Executive Summary brings your estimates, 50% scenario, methodology, assumptions, and leadership interpretation together in a format you can save and share.
Your existing GHL email will deliver the calculator results separately. The PDF itself is not attached to that email.
BEFORE THE NEXT PURSUIT
Move the Qualification Conversation Earlier
Not every lost bid represents avoidable effort. The useful question is whether your team has enough evidence to decide which pursuits warrant significant resources.
Your judgment still makes the final call
PUT THE ESTIMATE TO WORK
Use the Findings to Start a Better Discussion
Review the assumptions with the people who manage capture, proposals, and business development before changing your process.
The Capture Filter
So How Do You Catch These Pursuits Earlier?
01
SCORE
Evaluate the opportunity before committing major resources.
02
PRICE
Apply pricing intelligence after the opportunity clears the initial filter.
03
PROPOSE
Draft only after the pursuit has earned the investment.
That's the logic behind the AerobodiesAI Capture Engine:SCORE. PRICE. PROPOSE.
Your judgment still makes the final call.
It just doesn't have to make the first one anymore.
NEXT STEP, IF RELEVANT
Make More Informed Pursuit Decisions Before You Bid
Explore a structured way to evaluate opportunities before committing major proposal resources.