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What is repetitive work costing you this year?
Start with a number in about a minute. If you want it sharper, keep going and the estimate narrows as you answer. Nothing gets sent anywhere and nobody calls you. You can stop after any layer and still walk away with something useful.
Layer 1Your numbers
about 1 minuteClient intake, status updates, and report assembly. A high hourly cost makes small savings worth more.
Intake, scheduling, follow-up, data entry, quoting, billing, reporting. Owners count.
Same steps, same order, most weeks. If you are guessing, guess low.
Loaded cost, not the wage. Usually 25 to 40 percent above the hourly rate.
This is your guess, and it is the widest part of the estimate. Layer 2 replaces it with a number computed from how your business actually runs.
Layer 2Where the hours go
0 of 8Layer 3What happens next
0 of 3Recoverable per year
$12,000 to $24,000
About 442 hours back across the team
- Hours a year on repeat work
- 1,472
- What those hours cost you
- $80,960
- Your guess at what is automatable
- 30%
- Conservative end
- $12,144
The next step is an hour of conversation. It is free and the coffee is on us. If you want the written version, a $375 audit names the two workflows to start with. At the conservative end above, that audit pays for itself in 12 days.
Your office, a coffee shop, online, or the phone. One hour, no pitch. If there is nothing here worth doing, we will tell you that.
How this number was built
Every ROI calculator you have ever seen is tuned to make the vendor look good. Here is the whole formula so you can argue with it.
46 working weeks, not 52
Holidays, vacation, and sick time come out first. Using 52 inflates every result by about 13 percent.
The range narrows as you answer
With Layer 1 alone the low end is half the raw math, because a blanket guess is a weak input. Finish Layer 2 and the low end moves to 65 percent, because we now know which workflows have room and which do not.
Saved hours are not automatic savings
Nobody gets laid off here. The hours come back as capacity, so the value is real only if you put them toward work that earns.
Tooling cost is not in this
Most of this runs on software you already pay for. When it does not, that cost gets quoted in writing before anything starts.
Formula: people × hours per week × 46weeks × loaded hourly cost, times an automation share, shown as a range. In Layer 1 that share is your guess. In Layer 2 it is computed: each of the eight workflows carries a slice of the repetitive-hours pie, and your answer sets how much room is left in that slice, from 5 percent when it already runs itself to 65 percent when nothing holds it. This is an estimate for your own planning. It is not a quote, and it is not a promise of results.