For Microsoft Teams

Every meeting
has a cost. Now everyone
can see it.

RunningTab puts a live cost meter in every Teams meeting — one number, ticking where the whole room can see it. Invites stop being free the moment the price is on the wall.

WEEKLY SYNC$247.50…AND COUNTING
The Meter · live demo

Watch a meeting spend money.

This is the same card RunningTab posts in your Teams meeting. The only difference: the clock is sped up, so a full hour plays out in about a minute. Set your own headcount and rate, and watch the number move.

Weekly SyncLIVE
$0.00
In room7 Elapsed0m Per minute$0.00
People7
$/hr each$95
 
budget $500 · 0%TIME SPED UP · 1 SEC = 1 REAL MIN
Add to Teams — free

Installs in about a minute. Free for 20 meetings a month. No card needed.

The problem, as arithmetic

Meetings feel free because
nobody can see the bill.

No invented statistics here — just multiplication. Plug in your own numbers and it gets worse.

$0One recurring weekly hour, 7 people at $95/hr, for a year. One standing invite. That's the cost.
$0/dayA daily 5-person stand-up that runs 15 minutes over. Every workday. Quietly.
$0What any of it shows up as on any report, anywhere, today. RunningTab is the missing line item.
How it works

Three surfaces. One number.

01 · IN THE MEETING

The Meter

One card in the meeting chat — or the side panel — ticking as people join, stay, and leave. Green to amber to red as the budget burns. Everyone sees the same number.

RUNNING TAB · LIVE
$347.50
02 · WHEN IT ENDS

The Tab

The bill, itemized. A receipt lands in the chat: total cost, who spent how long, and 2–4 dollar-quantified ways to spend less next time. Not lectures — line items.

🧾 MEETING RECEIPT
$380.00
✂️ end 10 min earlier → save $58.46
03 · EVERY MONTH

The Ledger

The org dashboard your finance team will actually read: total spend, weekly trend, the five most expensive meetings. No names — just the money.

Wk 1$8.1k
Wk 2$12.7k
Wk 3$10.2k
Wk 4$6.9k
The Tab

Then the tab arrives.

At a restaurant, nobody does math mid-meal — that's what the tab is for. Meetings never got one. The second yours ends, RunningTab prints the tab into the chat: who spent how long, what it cost, and exactly how to spend less next week. People screenshot these. That's the point.

  • Late-start waste, priced per minute of idling.
  • "End 10 minutes earlier" — with the exact saving at your rate.
  • Room-size trims: who could've read the notes instead.
  • Your own opportunity costs: "this meeting = 2.5× team lunch."

RUNNINGTAB · RECEIPT

Weekly Sync — 1h 05m — 4 people
Ana · 65 min$130.00
Ben · 65 min$130.00
Cy · 55 min$110.00
Dee · 5 min (joined late)$10.00
Late-start idle$110.00 wasted
TOTAL$380.00
Budget$300.00 — over by $80
SPEND LESS NEXT TIME
Built to pass IT review

We count minutes and money.
Not people.

No salariesOne blended hourly rate your organizer sets. Nobody's comp is in the system, ever.
No recordingsNo audio, no transcripts, no message content. The meter only needs the clock.
No names storedPer-person timing is deleted when the meeting ends. The Ledger keeps totals only.
Minimal permissionsThree resource-specific Teams permissions, scoped to meetings the bot is invited to. Admin one-pager available.
Email your IT team — copy & paste

Not technical? You don't need to be. One button copies a ready-to-send request for whoever approves Teams apps — exact permissions, data handling, and a 15-minute pilot plan included.

Pricing

Flat per workspace.
Never per seat.

Per-seat pricing would punish you for the meter being seen — which is the whole idea. One price for your whole Microsoft 365 tenant.

Free

$0
forever
  • Tracks 20 meetings a month
  • The Meter, live in every meeting
  • The Tab — full receipts & savings tips
  • 60-second setup card
Add to Teams — free

Business

$199
per workspace / month
  • Unlimited meetings
  • Everything in Team
  • Priority support
  • Exports & benchmarks (roadmap)
Talk to us

The math: kill one recurring 30-minute, 6-person meeting and Team pays for itself ~8× over. The product computes its own ROI in every meeting it attends.

Questions
Is this surveillance?

No — and the architecture proves it. RunningTab never stores names, salaries, titles, recordings, or message content. It multiplies a blended rate by minutes. Per-person timing dies with the meeting; the dashboard keeps totals only.

How does setup work?

Add the bot to a meeting. It asks four questions on one card (rate, currency, budget, and what the money could buy instead). Defaults are fine — hitting Save works too.

Will IT approve it?

That's who we designed for. Three resource-specific permissions scoped to meetings the bot joins, a one-page data-handling summary for admins, and a purchase path through the Microsoft marketplace if procurement prefers it.

What if we hit the free limit?

The meter pauses politely with your usage on a card. Nothing you already saw is taken away, ever. Upgrade takes one checkout and the meter resumes instantly.

Ready?

Put the price on the wall.