Approval Friction Calculator
JIT approval workflows add latency to every access request. Across an engineering team, that latency aggregates into real productivity loss. Enter your team's parameters to see the annual cost of approval friction — and what automation would recover.
Engineering team size
Number of engineers who use JIT access regularly
Weekly access requests per engineer
Average number of JIT access requests per engineer per week
Average approval wait time (minutes)
Minutes from request to access grant for a typical approval. Include time to context-switch, compose the request, and wait for the approver response.
Automatable request percentage (%)
Percentage of requests that follow predictable low-risk patterns and could be auto-approved by a policy engine
Annual Hours Lost
engineering hours / year
Hours Recoverable
hours / year with automation
Weekly Friction
hours / week across team
Requests per Year
total access requests
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