Free Calculator · 2 Minutes

What Is One Manual Process
Costing You Every Year?

Pick any repetitive process — invoice entry, onboarding checks, report assembly, ticket triage. Enter three numbers. See what it costs, and what automating it would return.

Your process

Salary + NI/benefits + overheads ÷ working hours. £25–£35/hr is typical for UK back-office roles.
Well-designed automation typically takes 60–85% straight-through; humans keep the exceptions.

What the numbers say

Hours consumed per year—
Annual cost of this process—
Automatable cost per year—

 

Estimates for orientation, based on the numbers you enter — the honest version, with error-cost and cycle-time effects, is what our measurement framework produces during a sprint.

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Three Honest Caveats

Labour cost is the floor, not the ceilingError rework, delayed cycle times and customer contact usually add 20–50% on top of the number above — this calculator deliberately understates.
Saved hours ≠ saved cash by defaultThe saving is real when capacity is redeployed or hiring is avoided. Our ROI framework shows how to claim it credibly with your CFO.
Build cost is knowable up frontSingle-workflow automations start at £8K, quoted fixed — so payback is arithmetic, not hope.