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What does the manual work you could automate cost you?

Price one process: retyping orders, reports, invoices, answers to repeat emails. A result in money, no sign-up. It runs in your browser; nothing is sent.

Your result

Hours of manual work a year
828 h
Cost of that work a year
$37,260
Budget that pays back in 12 months
$18,630

What you can spend on building and running it for a year and break even after one year. After that you pay only for running it.

We count 46 working weeks a year (leave and holidays taken out).

Check on a call whether your assumption holds

How to count honestly

  1. Measure, do not guess

    Log the time on the task for one week. Estimates from memory are often far off.

  2. Add the rework

    A retyping error costs twice: someone finds it, fixes it and apologises to the customer. Add that time to the weekly hours.

  3. One process at a time

    A total of "everything we do by hand" tells you nothing. One process with a clear start and end gives a number you can decide on.

  4. Subtract the running cost

    Automation costs too: monitoring, system changes, exceptions. That is why the budget above covers the build and a year of running it.

Which process to price first

The fastest payback comes from processes that meet four conditions at once:

  • It repeats at least a few times a week.
  • It has rules you can write down: if X, then Y.
  • The data is already in a system, an inbox or a file, not in someone’s head.
  • A mistake is expensive, or a delay annoys the customer.

Next step

You have the numbers. In a 30-minute call we pick where to start.

  • We walk through your process and name the one or two steps that pay back fastest.
  • We tell you plainly what is not worth automating, and why.
  • No sales deck. The initial analysis is free.
Describe the process in 3 fields

The call is with Patryk, the engineer who then designs the work.

What do you want to build or improve?

Tell us your goal and what is getting in the way. Two or three sentences are enough.

Tell us about your challenge

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A product name or link is useful too.

What do you want to achieve, what is in the way, and is there a deadline? No passwords, keys or customer data.

The initial analysis and audit are free; we propose scope, cost and timeline for implementation afterwards. Sending this form does not book a consultation.

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Contact

  • We read your description and reply by email.
  • If needed, we arrange a technical conversation about your problem.

The time is agreed by email, case by case.

How we start

  • If we are not the right partner, we say so.
  • You see the scope, cost and timeline before work begins.