ROI · RUN YOUR NUMBERS

What waiting costs.

How much is the manual way costing you every week you wait? Five inputs, your numbers, conservative math. No email for the estimate.

Illustrative scenarioThe sliders open on an illustrative operation — a 25-person back-office workflow, one day a week each. It is not a client's numbers. Move them to yours; the verdict moves with them.

People on the workflow

Loaded hourly cost

65 $/hr

Hours per person per week

8 hrs

Rework / error rate

10 %

Automation coverage — Conservative share of the work AI can absorb.

40 %

Compare against a build

Count the cost of ownershipCounted

A system that keeps working has an owner. The three-year figures charge for one.

30 days included30 days of ownership are already inside the build price. The remaining 35 months of the three years are charged at $15,000/mo.

Ongoing ownership — Defaults to the Operate rung that comes with the build you selected. Set it to zero if your own team will own the system.

$15,000 /mo

Cloud and model run cost — Your infrastructure and model spend, if you want it counted.

$0 /mo

Net positive in year one: $87,440.

Your workflow burns · per year $743,600

Expected recovery · 40% coverage $297,440

Payback: 19.9 wk · ~5 mo

Show the full math

Recovery

Conservative floor: $178,464
Per month: $24,787
Per week: $5,720
Hours reclaimed · per year: 4,576 hrs

Against the build

Build investment: $45,000
Ongoing, 3 years: $525,000
3-year total cost: $570,000
3-yr recovery: $892,320
3-year net: $322,320
3-year ROI: 57%

At your inputs: $743,600 annual cost, $297,440 expected recovery, payback 19.9 wk · ~5 mo.

A system this valuable needs an owner — every Build includes its Operate period, 30 to 90 days by tier.

Payback inside a quarter. Scope it this week.

One Workflow That Works — $45,000

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The fine print

Estimate from your inputs and stated assumptions — not a quote or financial advice.

Assumptions52 working weekssavings scale linearly with automation coveragerework adds to the status-quo costthe three-year view charges the ongoing ownership and run costs you set belowConservative by default.

The rule this page applies If three-year net is negative, or payback runs past 24 months, this page says so and tells you not to build yet. It is not a DCF model: no discount rate, no tax treatment, no ramp curve — just money in against money out over 36 months.