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Is this automation worth it?
Fill in three numbers and see the hours saved, the monthly savings and the payback period. If it doesn't pay back, we'll tell you not to build it.
Your numbers
Use one specific process — not “all the admin work”.
Only count repeatable, rule-based work.
Use fully loaded cost: salary + benefits + overhead, usually 30–50% above the wage.
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Reply within one business day. If it's not worth it, we'll say so.
What the math assumes
Deliberately conservative
Even a good workflow leaves some human judgement and exception handling, so savings are calculated on 80% of manual hours.
One avoided mistake often pays for the build, but we leave it out of the numbers.
Either the task is too infrequent or the scope is too big. Do something smaller — or nothing.
Assumption: 4.33 weeks per month. Excludes time-cost, compliance and error costs.