One practitioner, one byline, all sources cited.
MeetingCost is written by Adam Stead. Everything on this site — the calculator, the tracker, the essays — is something I’ve either built for a team I run or used with a team I coach. No invented composites, no ghosted authors, no AI-fabricated “research.”
Adam Stead
I’ve built and run multiple companies across tech and marketing. Day job: CTO and operator. Side job, mostly accidentally: coaching other founders on how to stop drowning in their own calendars.
I started MeetingCost because the conversation about meeting waste is full of recycled statistics, fake case studies, and “insights” that sound right but don’t survive a click-through to the original source. I wanted somewhere you can land that cites its numbers — and a tool you can actually use during the meeting, not just read about afterwards.
Editorial principles
- Every stat links to its primary source.If I can’t trace it, I don’t cite it. The famous “$37 billion lost to meetings” number, for example, doesn’t appear here because nobody can find the study it came from.
- No invented case studies.When I write about a company’s approach (Shopify, GitLab, Doist), I link to their own words. Composites are labelled as composites.
- Freshness stamps are real.Every article has a “last reviewed” date. When the date updates, the piece has been re-checked against current sources.
- Corrections are visible.If I get something wrong, I fix it inline and note the correction. Email me at [email protected] if you spot anything.
What’s here
- Calculator — price a meeting in seconds
- Live tracker — run a meeting with the cost visible
- Research — essays, data, frameworks, case studies
- Glossary — defined terms with citations
Contact
Editorial: [email protected]. Pitches: [email protected]. General: [email protected].