ROI calculator

What is repetitive work costing you?

Three numbers, no email gate. Estimate what the manual work in your business is worth per year — with every assumption shown, so you can argue with the math.

Your numbers

Fully loaded means wages plus taxes and benefits — usually 1.25–1.4× the hourly wage.

What that’s worth

$24,500–$37,000
per year in recoverable time, assuming 40–60% of those hours can be automated
Hours recoverable each week16–24 hrs
A $2,500 audit pays for itself in3–5 weeks
A typical build ($8k–$35k, audit included) pays back in3–18 months
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The assumptions

Argue with the math, not with a promise.

Most ROI calculators are a lead form wearing a costume. This one shows its work, and every assumption below is one the audit exists to replace with your real number.

  • The formula: people × hours per week × hourly cost × 48 working weeks — the same conservative year the audit uses — taken at 40% and 60% automatable. Nothing else.
  • 40–60% is our working range, not a law of nature. Some workflows automate at 90%; some shouldn’t be automated at all. The audit replaces this range with a scored number per workflow.
  • It undercounts the upside. Faster response that wins deals and errors that never happen don’t show up in an hours-based estimate.
  • It ignores running costs. Deployed automations carry modest monthly software costs — those are itemised in any build we scope, and our prices are published.

FAQ

Fair questions about the math

If your estimate raised more questions than it answered, that’s the estimate working.

My number came out small. Should I bother?

Maybe not with us — and we’ll say so. Below roughly $15,000 a year, start with off-the-shelf tools first; here’s our honest guide to doing exactly that.

What counts as repetitive work?

Chasing documents and signatures, re-keying data between systems, drafting the same email for the tenth time, status-update calls, copy-paste reporting. If the steps are the same every time, count the hours.

Is this a quote?

No — it estimates the size of the opportunity, not the price of the work. Our prices are published: audits run $2,500–$9,500 and builds $8,000–$35,000, scoped and fixed before anything starts. See what the audit includes.

Where do I find my fully loaded hourly cost?

Take the hourly wage and multiply by 1.25–1.4 to cover taxes and benefits, or divide total payroll cost for the role by hours worked. When in doubt, use the lower figure — a conservative input makes a more useful estimate.

Want the real number instead of an estimate?

A 1–2 week operations audit replaces every assumption on this page with figures from your actual workflows — and you keep the roadmap either way.

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