Work the numbers yourself
Two calculators that run the same arithmetic we run during scoping, with the same assumptions. No email gate, nothing sent anywhere, and both will tell you not to buy something when that is the answer.
The two calculators
Both are open on the page. There is no form in front of them and no result held back behind an email address.
Automation payback calculator
What a process costs you today, what an automation would realistically remove, and how long it takes to pay for itself. Includes the straight-through correction that most vendor calculators leave out, because no automation handles 100% of cases, and pretending otherwise overstates the saving by a fifth.
- Takes: how often the process runs, the minutes it takes, a loaded hourly cost and what you are buying
- Gives: net hours removed, the monthly value, total monthly cost and the payback period. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere
Which automation do I need?
Five questions that map what you have described onto the published price list, from a $499 starter automation to a $5,000 voice agent. It will also tell you to build it yourself, or to leave it alone, when that is the honest answer.
- Takes: five questions about one process, roughly a minute
- Gives: the item on the published menu that fits, including when the answer is to spend nothing. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere
Why these exist
Every price on this site is published, which makes a calculator possible in a way it is not for a firm that quotes bespoke. You can work out what something costs and whether it pays back without speaking to us, and we would rather you did that than sat through a call to find out.
Both tools use the assumptions we actually apply. The straight-through rates in the payback calculator are the ones we would use in a proposal for the same work: 75% to 90% for document processing with varied inputs, higher for rule-based routing where the data is already structured. If the tool says a process does not pay back, that is what we would tell you on the call.
Both run entirely in your browser. The figures you enter are never sent or stored, and there is no form between you and the result. If you want to keep a copy, print the page.
What a calculator cannot do
It works from the numbers you give it, and the numbers people give are systematically optimistic in one direction and pessimistic in another. Volume gets estimated from memory, which averages away the peaks where the pain actually is. Minutes get timed as the typing rather than the finding, checking and waiting. And the interruption cost of work that arrives unpredictably nine times a day never appears at all.
So a result here is a decision aid, not a proposal. Where it says the case is obvious, it is obvious. Where it lands in the awkward middle, that is the signal to go and measure properly rather than to run the tool again with friendlier inputs.
Want the numbers checked against your real process?
We measure the baseline during scoping, so there is something honest to judge the result against a year later. Thirty minutes, no charge.
You will talk to Fayez or Kareem. Nobody else.