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What is that manual workflow costing the business?
Use real staffing, time and tool costs to estimate the size of the problem before deciding whether software is worth investigating.
Use your own operating numbers
Estimate what a manual workflow costs each year.
Planning estimate
- Current annual workflow cost
- $49,800
- Potential annual value of reclaimed time and avoidable tools
- $19,380
- Manual hours/year
- 1,040
- Potential hours reclaimed
- 364
This is a planning model, not a savings guarantee or software quote. Validate the inputs, implementation cost, adoption, maintenance and risks during discovery.
Discuss this workflow ↗Read the result carefully
A costly process is not automatically a good software project.
The calculation creates a starting point for discovery. A worthwhile project also needs a stable problem, willing users, usable data, sensible security controls and a delivery path that the business can support.
Before investing, compare process changes, existing products, better integrations and purpose-built software. The right answer may be a smaller operational improvement rather than a new application.
Compare custom and off-the-shelf software ↗Calculator questions
Is this a custom software quote?
No. It estimates the operating cost of the workflow you describe. A software estimate requires discovery of users, requirements, integrations, risks and support needs.
What is a loaded hourly employment cost?
It is the approximate hourly cost of employing someone, not only their take-home wage. Businesses may include salary or wages, employer costs and relevant overheads.
Why use a percentage for time reduction?
Software rarely removes every task. The percentage lets you model a cautious or optimistic scenario while keeping the assumption visible.
What costs are not included?
The model does not include discovery, development, migration, training, maintenance, risk or change-management costs. Those belong in a proper project assessment.