Automation decision tool
Automation ROI Calculator: Should You Automate This Process?
Estimate financial return, check whether the workflow is ready, and get a practical recommendation—not every repetitive process is ready to be automated yet.
Strategic benefits are shown separately and never used to inflate the financial ROI.
Process volume
Describe the total workload for this process. Staffing is estimated from the time required versus a standard workday or workweek.
Daily volume assumes 5 working days per week.
Typical handling time from start to done, excluding waiting.
Include salary, taxes, benefits, and overhead when possible.
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Process Volume
How to use this calculator
Work through the four steps for one real workflow. Results update as you change inputs. Stay in step view for a guided path, or switch to full screen to edit everything at once.
- Process volume
Enter how many tasks this process handles (per day or week), average minutes per task, and the fully loaded hourly labor cost. The summary shows time, headcount, and labor cost for the period you chose.
- Automation readiness
Rate how well-documented and stable the process is, how much of it follows clear rules versus judgment calls, and how often exceptions come up. Optionally flag strategic benefits like compliance, scaling, or consistency—those are shown separately and never inflate the ROI number.
- Proposed automation
Describe a realistic build: what share of the work you can automate, how much your team will actually use it, how much human review stays in the loop, and the setup, software, and maintenance costs involved.
- Recommendation
See your results, switch between Conservative / Expected / Optimistic scenarios, then copy the assessment or request a quote. Use Full screen anytime to see every step on one page.