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Estimate weekly hours and annual labor cost tied to manual processes — and what a modest automation share might recover.

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Enter average hours per process; total weekly hours = processes × hours (shown in results).

For your notes — team size does not multiply the cost estimate above. Weekly hours already reflect total time on these processes.

Planning estimate
Weekly hours on these processes
10.0 hrs
Annual labor cost (estimate)
$18,200
Potentially recoverable (60% automatable)
$10,920/yr
Break-even vs $50/mo tool
under 1 month

You spend about 10.0 total hours per week across 5 manual processes at $35/hr — roughly $18,200 per year in labor (3 people involved; cost is not multiplied by headcount). If about 60% of that work could be automated, you might recover around $10,920 annually. Against a $50/month automation tool, that pencils to break-even in under 1 month.

Assumptions: weekly hours are total (processes × hours per process); annual cost = weekly hours × 52 × hourly rate; 60% automatable share is a planning placeholder, not a guarantee; tool baseline is $50/month for comparison only.

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