The capacity case
Every clinic we talk to can fill more cycles than it runs. The constraint is upstream of demand: a fixed number of coordinator hours, most of them spent moving the same facts between systems. This page shows where those hours go, which ones one database removes, and what that does to your ceiling.
Where the hours go
This is the list we build with you on the call, task by task, in your own numbers. The figures below are the pattern we see; yours will differ. What rarely differs is the shape: the work exists because the facts live in more than one place.
Every line above is a handoff. Remove the handoff and the hour goes with it.
The industry baseline
Of a nurse's shift spent on documentation
The US Surgeon General's advisory on health worker burnout puts documentation at roughly 40% of a nursing shift. A 2025 national survey of nurses found 92% saying EHR systems had made their job worse, and a third considering leaving their post over it. Fertility is worse than average, not better: the cycle is a 34-day scheduling problem attached to a laboratory record and a self-pay ledger, and most clinics run those on three systems that do not know about each other.
Sources: US Surgeon General advisory on health worker burnout, via AACN · Black Book Research national nurse survey, 2025. External industry figures, not Solux measurements.
Run your numbers
Set the three inputs to your clinic. The right-hand column is arithmetic, not a forecast — and the assumption doing the work is stated in full below the results.
Your clinic today
On the headcount you have today
Model: one record removes 55% of the clerical hours a cycle costs today — the retyping, the hand-built calendar, the consent chase, the month-end reconciliation. Returned hours are then spent on cycles at your own clerical rate. It is a model, not a measurement. The 55% is our estimate from the seven tasks listed above, and we will walk through it line by line rather than ask you to accept it.
The two ways to add twenty cycles
| Add twenty cycles by hiring | Add twenty cycles on Solux | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Another coordinator, recruited, onboarded, trained on five systems | Hours already on payroll, returned by removing the handoffs |
| Time to effect | Two to four months to hire and reach competence | Sixty days to go-live, then immediate |
| Cost shape | Recurring salary, benefits and management overhead, permanently | One platform, replacing several licenses you already pay for |
| Error rate as volume rises | More people retyping the same facts in more places | Nothing is retyped, so volume adds no new places to be wrong |
| What happens at the next twenty | You do it again | You look at the readiness board and see whether there is room |
Hiring buys throughput once. Removing the handoff buys it every month.
Where this doesn't apply
A capacity argument that works in every clinic is a capacity argument nobody should believe.
If you are out of retrieval slots, embryologists or incubator space, software does not create capacity. Solux tells you that faster; it doesn't fix it. On the call we look at which constraint binds first.
The returned hours are real but the arithmetic gets thinner, and one coordinator who knows every patient is genuinely efficient. We will say so rather than sell you the install.
Hours returned are not cycles until someone books them. The clinics that get the whole number back are the ones whose funnel already has more demand than capacity.
Your prices, protocols, consents and staff have to be typed in. We run it against a 40-item checklist, but your team is in the room for part of it.
It comes from the seven tasks on this page, not from a study of your clinic. We will rebuild it with you, and if the honest number is lower, the honest number is what we use.
Solux runs a working fertility practice, and we will show you it live. What we will not do is invent a case study, a logo wall or a testimonial to close you.
Next step
Forty-five minutes, your numbers first, and a straight answer at the end — including the answer where the arithmetic doesn't clear and you shouldn't buy it.