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What Is Manual Work Costing You?
Enter three numbers and see the annual cost of repetitive work in your business — and what automation could recover. No email, no gate.
Your numbers, annualized
- Capital spent on manual work per year
- $57,600
- Recoverable with automation
- $34,560
- Hours freed per year
- 864
Based on 48 working weeks per year and your own inputs — an estimate to size the opportunity, not a quote. A scoping call turns this into a concrete plan with real numbers from your stack.
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How does the automation ROI calculator work?
It multiplies the people doing repetitive work by their hours per week and fully-loaded hourly cost, annualized over 48 working weeks. The automatable share you choose estimates how much of that cost automation could recover.
What counts as a fully-loaded hourly cost?
Salary plus benefits, payroll taxes, tools, and overhead — typically 1.25 to 1.4 times the base hourly wage. Using base salary alone understates what manual work really costs.
How much of manual work can realistically be automated?
It varies by workflow. Data entry, document generation, follow-up emails, and report assembly automate well; judgment calls and relationship work stay human. Most workflow audits find 40–70% of repetitive task time is automatable.
Want to know if your business is ready to capture these savings? Take the AI Readiness Scorecard or read the complete guide to business AI automation.