Free tools for costing an automation.
The same arithmetic we run in the audit week, published so you can run it before you speak to anyone. No email gate, no scored quiz, no results held back until a call.
1 tool published · free · nothing typed leaves your browser
The tools
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AI automation ROI calculator
Hours a week, people involved and a fully loaded hourly cost go in. Hours across the team, the annual cost of the task, the saving at 80% automated and the payback period on a build come out. Every assumption is printed under it, including the three that flatter the result.
Open the calculator- Runs entirely in your browser, nothing typed is sent or stored
- Worked example built from 698 hours a month of real order operations
- Six questions answered on what the number leaves out
Why there is only one
We publish a tool when we already use it on real engagements, which so far means one. The readiness scorecards and maturity quizzes that fill this category are usually lead forms wearing a lab coat: they ask twelve questions, grade you amber, and hold the explanation behind a call. If we build a second tool it will be because the audit week produced something worth handing over, not because the page looked empty.
Until then, the calculator answers the question most people arrive with, and the pages below answer the ones that come next: what this costs, who else does it, and how to measure a workflow properly before you put any number into anything.
Where to go next
How we price
The published floors and bands behind the calculator, and what changes a fixed estimate after the audit week.
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The real cost of a manual order workflow
How to count the steps and price the interruptions before you put a single number into any calculator.
Ran the numbers and they hold up?
Send the workflow and what the calculator returned. Alex Novak, delivery director, replies within one business day, including when the honest answer is that it is not worth automating yet.