Automation ROI calculator: what is the grind costing you?
Three sliders — team size, loaded hourly rate, and hours a week spent on manual work. The number that comes back is what the grind costs you a year. No email, no gate, and the share link carries your numbers with it.
It's the size of the leak — not a promise.
The math behind the automation ROI calculator is deliberately simple: team size × hours a week on manual work × loaded rate, annualized. A 22-person team spending 8 hours a week at $65 an hour is $594,880 a year in payroll going to the grind.
What the calculator can't know is which of those hours automation can actually recover — that depends on how the work flows through your systems and your people. To rank the candidates yourself, start with what to automate first: a framework for picking the one with a measured leak behind it.
That's what the operations audit is for: one week inside your operation, your top three leaks quantified against the real workflow, and a build roadmap ranked by ROI. $4,500, credited toward the first build — and if it doesn't surface savings worth more than its cost, you don't pay.
And if you'd rather have the building done for you month after month, that's the fractional AI partner.
A note from Nick
From one operator to another.
If the work keeps outgrowing your team, your team is doing something right. The busywork grew with it, and that part can be fixed.
Before I wrote code, I built a sales company with 120+ reps on contract and 77 consistent producers. It taught me that a system only pays off when the people doing the work actually use it, so I build for the person who runs it every day, not for the demo.
We start by asking your team for their advice: where the week really goes, and what they'd fix first. The plan comes out of their answers, so it's already theirs when it ships.
Nick George · Charlotte, NC
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That number comes due again every year it isn't fixed.
Ran the numbers? Now find the leak.
A short conversation to confirm there's a real bottleneck worth a week of work — then we book the audit. If the audit doesn't surface savings worth more than its cost, you don't pay.
Charlotte, NC · nickgeorgeai.com