What is that repetitive
work actually costing?
Four questions about one task your team still does by hand. The number appears as you type, and we don’t ask for anything to show it.
Your numbers
Salary plus employer costs, divided by hours worked.
Estimate
That work currently costs about
£35,328 a year
24 hours a week · 1,104 hours a year
Automating it typically removes
£10,598 – £19,430
331–607 hours a year back to the team
A workload this size usually sits on
AI + Managed IT · from £1,250/month
On the mid estimate that pays for itself in about 12 months.
An estimate, not a quote. It assumes 46 working weeks and a share of the task being automated rather than all of it. What we’d commit to comes out of a proper look at the process.
About this calculator
How does the automation ROI calculator work?
It multiplies the people doing a task by the hours each spends on it, then by what an hour of their time costs, to get an annual figure. It assumes 46 working weeks rather than 52 so holiday and sickness are accounted for. It then applies a range for how much of that work automation usually removes, based on how repetitive you say the task is. The output is a range, not a single number, because the honest answer depends on the process.
Is the saving estimate realistic?
It is deliberately conservative. Even a highly repetitive task is capped at 75% removed rather than 100%, because exceptions, approvals and edge cases almost always need a person. A task with a lot of judgement in it is capped much lower. If a calculator tells you a process disappears entirely, treat that as a sales pitch rather than an estimate.
What counts as fully-loaded hourly cost?
Take the salary, add employer National Insurance, pension contributions and any other employment costs, then divide by the hours actually worked in a year. For a lot of UK office roles this lands somewhere between £25 and £45 an hour. Using bare salary alone will understate what the work is really costing you.
Do I have to give my email to see the result?
No. The number appears as you type and nothing is gated. If you want a written breakdown of what we would automate first and in what order, there is a form under the result, but the estimate itself is yours either way.
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