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Automation ROI Calculator
Add the tasks you repeat each day. See how the time adds up and what automation could give back.
What tasks take up your day?
Enter the minutes for one run, then how often it happens each day. Decimals work too: 0.5 minutes is 30 seconds.
Adjust assumptions & costs
Estimate uses 5 workdays/week and 50% time saved. Setup: $2,000; running costs: $0/month. Adjust these above.
Your combined estimate
Across 1 task
Current daily time: 20 minutes
- Estimated monthly value
- $144
- Hours saved / month
- 3.6
- Setup pays for itself in
- 13.8 months
Monthly hands-on time
Bars share a zero baseline.
Based on the value of time recovered, not guaranteed cash savings.
How is this calculated?
Each task: minutes per run multiplied by runs per day. Add the tasks, multiply by workdays per week and 52/12 weeks per month, then divide by 60 for monthly hours. Apply the expected time-saving percentage. Monthly value is saved hours multiplied by hourly cost, less monthly running costs. Payback is setup cost divided by positive monthly value.
First-year modeled ROI: -13%. This compares twelve months of recovered time value with setup and twelve months of running costs.
Example values are illustrative, not a quote. Decimal minutes and daily averages are supported, including tasks that take less than a minute. Include review and exceptions when estimating time saved. Taxes, financing, ramp-up and revenue gains are excluded.
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