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What is manual work actually costing you?

The jobs you do by hand every week feel small on their own. Added up over a year they are usually the most expensive thing in the business. Tick what applies and see the real number.

Which of these do you still do by hand?
Adjust the numbers if your situation is different — the defaults are typical for a small team.
What is an hour of that time worth?
Use roughly what you'd pay someone to do this work, per hour.
Cost of doing it manually
Pick a task to see the number
Realistically recoverable
Most of this work is rule-based, so around 75% of it can be automated. The rest still needs a human.

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How much time can automation really save?

Most small businesses recover between 5 and 20 hours a month from their first few automations. The saving rarely comes from one dramatic change — it comes from removing four or five small jobs that quietly repeat every week.

What should a small business automate first?

Start with the task that is repetitive, rule-based, done often, and easy to get wrong. If it follows the same steps every time and needs no judgement, it can almost certainly be automated.

Is automation expensive to set up?

It does not need to be. A single automation that removes three hours of manual work a week returns roughly 150 hours a year — which usually pays for itself within weeks. You do not need enterprise software to begin.

Why the number above is usually an underestimate

This calculator only counts the minutes spent doing the task. It does not count the cost of context switching — stopping other work to handle something manual — or the sales lost when a follow-up goes out two days late. Those are real, and they're larger than the raw hours.