What is the busywork costing you?
Pick the work that eats your week, put in your own numbers, and see the hours, the dollars, and what automation could give back.
Which work eats your week?
Choose everything that applies. You will set the real numbers next.
Make the numbers yours.
Starting values are typical placeholders. Change them to what really happens in your business.
Here is what it costs.
a year in team time.
An automation that takes the copying off your plate pays for itself within a year if it costs under $0, and within six months under $0.
Automation Sprint.
One workflow, end to end, up to three systems, starting with your top task.
Your build plan.
How each of these would be automated, step by step, and the one thing to watch for.
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How the math works.
How often, times minutes each, times people. Daily work counts about 21.7 working days a month, weekly about 4.33 weeks.
The default is $46.89 rounded to $47: what US private employers paid per hour worked in June 2026, benefits included, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Change it to yours.
Only the copying share counts toward what automation could give back. The judgment stays with your people. A build that costs less than a year of that time pays for itself within a year.