Executive assistants + the systems that make them work
The average founder spends
22 hours a week on work
someone else should do.
We know because we measure it. Here’s what 50+ founder assessments revealed. Yours is free.
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Based on 50+ founder assessments
Inside the average founder’s delegation report
Composite data from real FreedUp assessments
Working hours/wk
How we estimated this
Across 50+ assessments, the median founder works 52–58 hours per week.
Full-time operators with a side advisory or board role skew toward 60.
Solo founders without co-founders trend closer to 50.
We use 55 as the composite average.
Delegatable hours/wk
How we estimated this
On average, 40% of a founder’s week is operational overhead that doesn’t require their specific expertise.
The top categories — email, scheduling, meeting prep, CRM upkeep, and follow-ups — account for the bulk.
55 hours × 40% = 22 delegatable hours per week.
Hours/year you could get back
How we estimated this
22 delegatable hours per week × 52 weeks = 1,144 hours per year.
That’s 28.6 full 40-hour weeks — more than half a year of productive time spent on tasks that don’t require the founder’s expertise.
Founders measured
How we estimated this
All data on this page is derived from 50+ real founder assessments conducted by FreedUp.
Founders range from $1M to $50M in revenue across SaaS, services, e-commerce, and venture.
The patterns are remarkably consistent regardless of industry.
How to get your time back
1. Build systems.
2. Install an operator.
Most EA hires fail because they walk into chaos. We build the operating system first, then install an operator inside it.
The systems
The operator
How we find the 1%
● vetted, trained, and placed
→ ready to own your time
Your first 45 days
Week 1
Apply & Discovery
Start with a 2-minute application, followed by a 7-minute questionnaire, and a 90-minute discovery call to deeply understand your needs.
Weeks 1–3
Custom-Built Systems
We invest 60+ hours creating personalized SOPs, playbooks, and delegation frameworks tailored to how you work.
Weeks 2–4
Recruit & Train
We source from the top 1% of global talent, then train your EA on your specific systems, tools, and preferences.
Week 5+
Launch & Ongoing Support
Ongoing monitoring, performance assessments, and continuous improvement — we're your operational partner, not just a staffing agency.
Same founder. Different day.
What a typical Tuesday looks like before and after the system is installed.
3 hours of real work. 7 hours of admin.
6 hours of real work. Done by 4:15. EA handled the rest.
— end of workday —
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Why FreedUp exists
We’ve been there.
You’ve tried hiring assistants before. Maybe they didn’t stick. Maybe you spent more time managing them than doing the work yourself. The problem was never the person — it was the lack of a system around them. That’s what we build.
Founders assessed
Hours of playbooks per client
EA applicants screened monthly
Money-back guarantee
Trusted by founders at
“Their systems and the EA they placed with me have changed the paradigm for what I thought was possible from the remote Assistant role.”
Salen Churi
General Partner, Trust Ventures
“Partnering with FreedUp transformed my EA relationship the same way that EOS helped transform the way I run my business.”
David Shaner
Founder/CEO, Offline
We onboard no more than 4 new founders per month. Custom playbook builds take 60+ hours per client.
The cost of waiting
Every week without a system
is another 22 hours lost.
The emails keep piling up. The calendar stays broken.
The follow-ups you forgot cost you the deal you should have closed.
The deep work you planned gets eaten by admin — again.
A year from now, that’s 1,144 hours you can’t get back.
You don’t need to work harder. You need to stop
doing work that isn’t yours.
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