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Work out what a manual process is costing you each year, and what automating part of it would be worth. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to email yourself the result.

The process today

Describe one repetitive process. Estimates are fine.

Salary plus employer costs, divided by working hours.

After automation

Realistic for document and data work is usually 50–80%. The remainder stays with a human reviewer.

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Model/API usage, hosting and support.

Net annual saving

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Payback period

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Hours reclaimed / year

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Annual cost of this process

Today — manual —
After automation — labour + running cost —

The detail

Hours spent on this per year
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Gross annual saving (labour)
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Annual running cost
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Net saving in year 1 (after build cost)
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Net position over 3 years
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Full-time equivalents freed
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Assumes 46 working weeks per year to allow for leave and holidays. Figures are an indicative model based on the inputs above, not a quotation. Reclaimed hours are only a saving if that capacity is redeployed or headcount genuinely changes — we'd rather you plan for that than be surprised by it.

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