Resource · Calculator

What will the automation save you?

Drag a slider or type a number. Enter the price of the automation and what the work costs you today, and see when it pays for itself and what you keep over the next 1 to 10 years. Handy for sanity-checking a quote or the numbers in your Discovery Report.

01 · The automation

$

The build price from your proposal or Discovery Report.

02 · What the work costs you today Fill in either one, or both

Current cost (Hourly)

Staff or owner time spent on the task.

$
hrs

Current cost (Recurring)

A flat monthly amount: an outsourced service, a contractor, a fee, or rework and errors.

$
03 · Fine-tune (optional)
%

Most builds don’t remove 100% of the work. 80% is a cautious starting point.

$ /mo

The tools and usage you’ll pay for directly each month. Your proposal lists these.

%

How fast the costs above rise each year. The 2.5% starting point is the average U.S. consumer price inflation (CPI-U) over the last 30 years, 1995 to 2025. Wages and vendor prices often rise faster than the headline CPI, so raise it if yours do. Set it to 0 to ignore inflation.

Pays for itself in—
Net savings after 5 years—
Saved in year 1—
yrs
Keep doing it today’s wayAutomateYou keep
Cumulative cost over time

Estimates only, based on the numbers you enter and 48 working weeks a year. Costs rise each year by the inflation rate you set (the one-time quote does not). The 2.5% default is the compound annual rate of U.S. CPI-U from 1995 (152.4) to 2025 (321.9), per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Actual results depend on your workflow, volume and how the build is scoped. Cumulative cost counts the one-time quote plus ongoing running costs and any work still done by hand.

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Where to start

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Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We’ll learn how your business runs, hear where the busywork piles up, and explain how Discovery works and what it costs. Discovery is where we work out what’s worth automating first — and whether automation is the answer at all.

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  • No lock-in
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