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What is that manual process really costing you?
Every week, someone in your business re-keys data, compiles a report by hand, or chases a process through an inbox. This calculator puts an annual number on it — and tells you how quickly an automation would pay for itself.
How to read the result
The calculation is deliberately conservative: 46 working weeks a year, and it counts only the direct hours — not the errors, the delays, or the better work those hours could have produced. If the payback period reads under twelve months, automation is usually a straightforward decision. Under six, you're losing money every month you wait.
Two honest caveats. First, not every manual process should be automated — unstable processes should be fixed before they're accelerated. Second, build costs vary with the systems involved; treat the default as a placeholder and ask us for a real number, which costs nothing.
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