Automation ROI Calculator
Find out what manual work costs you —
and which task to automate first.
Four short steps. Every assumption is visible and adjustable, so you can pressure-test the numbers instead of taking them on faith.
Your team
Use a blended hourly cost — salary plus benefits and overhead, divided by working hours. For most businesses that's roughly 1.3× the raw wage.
Where the hours go
Tick the work your team actually does and enter total hours per week across everyone — not per person. Each task carries its own realistic automation range; nothing here assumes a blanket percentage.
What you'd do with the time back
This is the step most ROI calculators skip. Saved hours only become money if they go somewhere valuable — so each option converts hours to dollars at a different, deliberately conservative rate.
Investment & rollout
Automation isn't free and it isn't instant. Ongoing tooling costs and a realistic ramp period are built into every figure below.
Your results
Before / after automation
What to automate first
| Task | Hrs/wk | Automatable | Build effort | Annual value |
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Cumulative value vs. cumulative cost
Year-one numbers in full
These are estimates. The next step makes them real.
In a 30-minute working session we map your actual processes, measure the real hours, and replace every assumption on this page with a number from your business.
Automation rates shown are typical industry ranges for each task type, applied conservatively. Conservative and optimistic figures reflect the low and high end of those ranges. Results depend on process complexity, data quality, and team adoption — this tool is a directional estimate, not a quote.