Automation ROI Calculator

See what a manual process is really costing your team. Enter a few numbers about something your team does by hand today and you’ll get a rough range for the hours, working days and money automating it could give back—no email, no submit button.

It’s not just about the hours. It’s about the mistakes that happen when someone’s rushing—the wrong figure, the skipped step, the version sent to the wrong person. Automation does it the same way, every time.

YOUR PROCESS What’s the process? Optional—just so the estimate reads back as something you recognise. People who do this task Hours a week each person spends on it Similar processes like this across the business If you run this same manual process for 3 different clients or departments, enter 3. Fully-loaded hourly cost of that time (£) Salary plus overhead, not just take-home pay. A rough estimate is fine. Realistic automation potential —how much of the task is repetitive and rule-based rather than judgement. Most manual admin lands between 60% and 80%. How often does it go wrong and need fixing? of the time it results in a mistake, needs redoing, or gets flagged after the fact—typos, wrong figures, missed fields, a step skipped under time pressure.

THE ESTIMATE

That’s about hours ( working days) a year—worth an estimated a year in reclaimed team time.

FIXING MISTAKES

Of that, roughly hours a year () is currently spent fixing mistakes rather than doing the work itself—the wrong figure, the missed field, the version sent to the wrong person. Automation does the task the same way every time, so that cost mostly disappears rather than just shrinking.

This is a rough estimate based on the numbers above, not a guarantee—every process is different. A free review will give you an exact figure.

Figures assume 46 working weeks a year rather than 52, to allow for holiday and absence, and an 8-hour working day. Hours are rounded to the nearest whole number and pounds to the nearest £100—precision below that would look more confident than the inputs deserve.