What does that manual work cost a year?
Re-typing, booking, looking up, forwarding. Enter how long it takes, how often it happens and who does it — and see what it costs a year, what automating saves and when it pays back. Including an honest "not yet".
The numbers
Worth a conversation
Earned back within two years. Fine if the task is also error-prone or blocks growth; otherwise wait until it grows.
Hours only turn into money when they are actually redeployed — into sales, delivery, or not hiring the next person.
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How it works
1. Pick a task
Start from a common task or enter your own numbers: minutes per occurrence, how often, how many people, what an hour costs.
2. Count the rework
Errors cost time nobody writes down. A small error rate with half an hour of repair per error often outweighs the task itself.
3. Read the answer — even when it's no
Payback in months and the three-year net, against build and running costs. If the hours aren't there, the tool says so.
Most tasks that come out well here are integrations between systems you already have, or a piece of process automation around them. Want to know what that costs? See our pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Why 46 working weeks and not 52?
Because people take holidays and public holidays exist. A task that comes back 'every week' comes back about 46 times a year. Counting 52 makes every automation a tenth prettier than it is, and this is a calculator you need to be able to trust — including when it says no.
What is a realistic hourly cost?
Not gross salary divided by hours. An employee costs the employer roughly 1.3 to 1.4 times gross salary (pension, insurance, holiday pay), spread over the hours they actually work. For an administrative role that quickly reaches 35 to 50 euros an hour; for yourself as the owner, your own rate is the honest number.
Why is the automated share 80 % by default and not 100 %?
Because an automation almost never takes over the whole task. Exceptions remain: an order with an odd address, an invoice without a number, a customer who calls instead of emailing. Someone still handles those. Twenty percent is a typical remainder; raise it if you know better, but do not count on zero.
The result says 'not yet'. Is that right?
Usually. A two-minute task that happens once a week costs an hour and a half a year — that does not earn back a build of thousands of euros, however annoying it is. But time is not the only argument. A task that produces errors customers notice, or that blocks growth because nobody wants to take it over, can be worth it while the hours are not. That is why it says 'probably not' rather than 'no'.
What does an automation actually cost?
An integration between two systems you already use — web shop to accounting, CRM to invoicing — often lands between 2,500 and 7,500 euros, depending on how clean the data is and how many exceptions have to be handled. An automation with its own screen or custom logic behind it starts around 5,000 euros. Running costs are usually small: hosting and the odd API licence.
Saved hours aren't a real saving, are they?
Not automatically, and the tool says so. Hours turn into money when they go somewhere else: into sales, into faster delivery, or into not hiring the next person. If the time frees up and nothing else changes, you mainly have a calmer team — which has value, but not euros in the account.
Does your task come out well?
Send us the numbers. Within two working days we'll tell you whether it should be an integration, an automation, or simply a better setup of what you already have — and what it costs.