What is the manual work costing you?
Five inputs, arithmetic you can check, and no sales email required. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is sent to us.
What this calculator leaves out
Every one of these makes the real case stronger except the last, which we included deliberately.
Errors and rework
Manual processes generate corrections, credit notes, re-submissions and complaints. That cost is real and usually larger than people estimate, and none of it is counted above.
Cycle time
An approval that takes three days instead of three minutes has a cost in working capital, lost orders and customer patience. Not counted.
Coverage
Systems work nights, weekends and December. Adding that coverage with people costs a premium that is not in these numbers.
Attrition and hiring
Repetitive work is the work people leave over. Recruitment and ramp-up costs are not counted.
Risk and evidence
Consistent policy application and a complete audit trail have a value that shows up only when something goes wrong. Not counted.
What is counted against you
The ongoing cost of running and supporting the automation is subtracted, and the automatable share is applied to the whole workload rather than assumed to be everything.
Why we publish this
Most automation proposals arrive with a savings number the buyer cannot reproduce. The number is built on assumptions nobody shows, and the first thing a finance director does with it is discount it by half.
We would rather you do the arithmetic yourself, on your own inputs, before you talk to us. If the number is small, automation is probably not your priority and we have saved you a meeting. If it is large, the assessment turns those estimates into measurements and the roadmap tells you which part to take first.
Turn the estimate into measurements
A fixed-fee assessment replaces every assumption above with a measured number from your own systems.