Maintenance is not free
Automations break when the apps they connect change. Budget a few hours a quarter for upkeep — or a support arrangement. If the net monthly saving above is small, maintenance can eat it.
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Automation ROI calculator
Enter what the repetitive work actually costs you today and what automating it would cost. The math updates as you type. No email gate, no tracking beyond our normal analytics.
Your numbers
What the manual work costs
Defaults are a typical small-business starting point, not a promise. The "realistically automatable" slider matters most — 100% is almost never true.
Honest assumptions
What this calculator deliberately ignores
The first workflow is the expensive one
Setup cost drops sharply after the first build: the second and third workflows reuse the same connections and patterns. The payback number here is for workflow one, standalone — the pessimistic case.
Time saved only counts if it's redeployed
Six hours a week handed back is only worth the number above if that time goes into work that earns. That's a management decision, not a technical one — and it's the most common reason automation "doesn't pay off."
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Tell us what the repetitive work is. We'll tell you what's actually automatable, what it would cost, and — sometimes — that it isn't worth automating yet. Straight answers either way.