Automation payback calculator
Automation ROI calculator for repeat work
See what a repeat task costs a month, and how soon a fixed-price automation at $1K to $3.5K pays for itself, from your own numbers.
The calculator
The task costs you
$2,415 a month
$28,980 a year. At 60%, about $1,449 a month comes back.
Payback against our fixed prices
- 2 to 3 months
- 1 to 2 months
- 2 to 3 months
- 2 to 3 months
Your numbers stay in this page until you send them. They are never in the web address or in analytics.
How the numbers work
Three steps, all of them arithmetic you can check
Every figure comes from what you entered and our published prices.
What the task costs
Hours a week each, times the people who do it, times their hourly cost, over 46 working weeks a year. Use the fully loaded cost: pay, taxes and benefits.
What comes back
An automation takes over the rules-based part of a task and leaves judgment to a person. The share slider is that part: lower it for work that needs a lot of judgment.
How soon it pays
Each fixed-price offer's range, divided by what comes back a month, rounded up to whole months. The price is agreed before work starts.
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Next step
Want the plan behind the number?
Tell us which task it is. The free plan says which part to automate first, how long it takes and the fixed price.