Who it is for
Anybody about to decide whether a system is worth building.
Business and Money · Calculator · Free
Is this worth automating? Automation Payback Calculator
Enter one repetitive task. Get the yearly cost of doing it by hand and how fast automating it pays for itself.
Runs in your browser. Nothing to install. Save the result or embed it on your site.
Your numbers
What that means
Modeled payback if all entered work disappears: 8.0 weeks
8.0 weeks
Modeled payback if all entered work disappears
$9,727 annual modeled benefit before build cost
173
Hours a year by hand
$6,067
Labor cost a year
$3,900
Mistakes cost
65 a year
$47,133
Five year savings
By hand$9,967
Automated$240
The scenario has a short payback. Confirm remaining review work, reliability, and actual cash savings before approving a build.
Upper-bound scenario assumes all entered task time and errors are eliminated, with no residual labor or setup overruns. Error costs must exclude labor already counted above. Valued time is not automatically cash saved or new sales.
What this assumed
- Assumes the automation keeps working. Budget for it breaking at least once a year.
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
This is an estimate
This tool returns an estimate based on the numbers you entered. Your real result depends on your own costs, rates and conditions. Check it against your own records before you make a decision with it.
What this tool actually does for you
The problem it points at
Small tasks hide. Five minutes, twenty times a week, is a hundred hours a year.
What you walk away with
A payback period in weeks so the decision is obvious either way.
How to use it
Takes about two minutes. Be honest with the numbers, the tool is not going to tell anybody.
- Enter how long the task takes and how often it happens.
- Enter what it would cost to automate it.
- Review the modeled payback and confirm what work would actually disappear.
Keep learning
Go a little deeper.
See how this tool fits a practical task, with a guide you can follow at your own pace.
Put this tool on your own website
Free forever. I host it. You keep it.
This is a real lead magnet you can run on your own site tonight. Somebody lands on your page, plays with the numbers, sees what their problem costs, and now they are on your website instead of a competitor's. Costs you nothing, and I keep it working.
- Scroll up and press Put this tool on my website. The code appears right there, no form.
- Copy the one line you get.
- In your website editor, add an Embed, HTML or Custom Code block on whatever page you want it on.
- Paste it in, save, publish.
- Check it on your phone, then send people to that page.
Works on
WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy, Webflow, Duda, HubSpot, ClickFunnels, or plain HTML. Anywhere that takes an embed code.
What it costs you
Nothing. No monthly fee, no expiring trial, no watermark you have to pay to remove. If you get stuck putting it in, text me at (903) 500-8898 and I will help you place it.
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