AI ROI calculator: what is manual work really costing you?
Two quick calculators. The first works out what a repetitive task costs you in time and money. The second works out what slow or missed inquiries cost in lost work. Move the sliders and the numbers update as you go.
What does one manual task cost you?
Move the sliders and the numbers update as you go.
What are missed and slow inquiries costing you?
Move the sliders and the numbers update as you go.
How to work out the ROI of AI automation
- 1Measure the time a task takes today, in total, across everyone who touches it.
- 2Multiply by the real hourly cost of those people, including employer costs.
- 3Estimate how much of the task can be automated. Be cautious: some steps always need a person.
- 4Compare the yearly saving with what the system costs to build and run.
What it's looked like for real businesses
Questions
About the calculator.
Work out the yearly cost of the work being automated (hours times the real hourly cost), estimate the share that AI can take, and compare that saving, plus any extra revenue, with the cost of building and running the system.
Yes, when it's aimed at a job that already costs you time or money, like slow replies to new leads or hours of manual reporting. The Technical Traders got 15+ hours a week of senior time back, and MyFamilyPlan over 100 hours a month. AI bought without a clear job to do tends to return very little, so price the job first with an automation ROI calculator like this one.
Look for systems that pay back within months, not years. If the numbers only work on optimistic assumptions, it's probably the wrong thing to automate first.
It's a cautious illustration so you can see the scale. Your real booking rate is different, and it's the first thing we measure when we look at your data.
Yes, and you don't need to give an email to use it.