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How many hourscould you get back?

Pick your industry and adjust your volumes: the calculator estimates the hours that automating your repetitive tasks could give back, per week, per year and in euros.

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16 industries preset · Conservative, editable assumptions · Shareable result link

Calculator

Your estimate, in three settings.

Your industry

Pick the closest industry: its typical tasks and example volumes are pre-filled.

Your tasks

Untick what doesn’t apply and replace the volumes with your own. Example volumes: 3 people, about 150 orders / week

  • 2.8 h / week

    Automatic replies to tracking requests (status, carrier link, delivery estimate), product and shipping questions; disputes and sensitive cases go to the team.

  • 1.4 h / week

    Eligibility checked (window, condition, policy), return label issued, parcel tracked, refund or exchange prepared; a person confirms on receipt.

  • 0.8 h / week

    Stuck orders monitored (address, payment, stock-out, parcel held), the customer contacted to fix it and the team alerted.

  • 2 h / week

    Draft descriptions, attributes, SEO tags and translations from supplier data and your tone-of-voice guidelines; reviewed before publishing.

  • 1 h / week

    Low-stock alerts based on sales velocity, suggested quantities and a draft supplier purchase order to approve.

  • 0.9 h / week

    Draft replies to customer reviews and to Amazon or other marketplace messages within the platform’s response times; negative reviews are escalated to the team.

  • 1.6 h / week

    Sales by channel, average order value, margin, return rate and stock-outs consolidated every Monday in a dashboard, with the points that need attention highlighted.

Average fully loaded cost of one hour of work for the team involved (€35/h by default).

Your estimate

E-commerce

Hours back per week

10.5 h / week

Hours back per year
493 h / year
Equivalent staff cost per year
€17,256 / year
tasks included
7 / 7

Split by type of automation

  • Customer messages & requests 3.7 h
  • Documents & admin 2.0 h
  • Scheduling & operations 3.2 h
  • Custom business tools 1.6 h

Indicative estimate, based on the assumptions above. No guaranteed results.

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Transparency

A simple formula, visible assumptions.

No black box: the result comes from three numbers per task, which you can see and change. We use the same formula across the whole site.

Hours per week
Σ ( volume × minutes × automatable share ) ÷ 60
Hours per year
hours per week × 47 working weeks
Value in euros
hours per year × hourly cost

  • Weekly volume

    How often the task comes up each week: messages, files, invoices, jobs… Defaults reflect the example business for each industry.

  • Manual time per unit

    The average time someone spends on it today, including looking things up and re-keying data. We deliberately use modest durations.

  • Automatable share

    The portion of the work actually taken over. It never reaches 100%: sensitive cases, approvals and exceptions stay with your team.

  • Working weeks

    We count 47 weeks a year to allow for holidays, bank holidays and quieter periods.

  • Hourly cost

    The fully loaded cost of one hour of work, €35/h by default. It only translates hours into a financial order of magnitude.

Method

From estimate to measurement.

The calculator gives you an order of magnitude. The assessment tests it against your reality; production measures it.

  1. 01

    Estimate

    You get a first estimate here, based on your industry’s typical tasks and your own volumes.

    2 minutes

  2. 02

    Check

    During the free assessment, we go through your actual tasks, tools and constraints, then correct the assumptions.

    30 minutes

  3. 03

    Prioritise

    We rank automations by hours back and effort, so you start with what pays off fastest.

    Roadmap

  4. 04

    Measure

    Once live, every automation is tracked: volumes handled, approvals, hours actually saved.

    Ongoing

What the estimate leaves out

  • Set-up time and the learning curve of the first few weeks.
  • Indirect gains: fewer errors, faster replies, happier customers.
  • Tasks specific to your organisation, which we identify during the assessment.

Estimation methodology

FAQ

About the calculator

How to read the result, and what it doesn’t tell you.

Is the calculator’s result a promise?
No. It is an indicative estimate based on assumptions you can see and change. The free assessment exists precisely to test it against your actual tasks, volumes and tools.
Where do the default volumes and times come from?
They describe an example business for each industry (stated below the calculator and on the industry page), with deliberately conservative manual times and automatable shares. Replace them with your own figures for a personalised estimate.
Why does the automatable share never reach 100%?
Because we keep people in the loop: sensitive cases, exceptions and important approvals stay with your team. Automation takes over the repetitive work, not the decisions.
What does the euro amount represent?
Hours back per year multiplied by the hourly cost you enter (€35/h by default). It is an order of magnitude for the value of the time freed up, not a guaranteed cash saving.
Is my data stored?
No. The calculation runs in your browser and nothing is saved on our servers. The share link simply carries your assumptions in its address. If you request an assessment, your estimate is added to your message, which you can review before sending.
My industry isn’t listed. What should I do?
Choose the industry whose tasks are closest to yours and adjust the volumes, or describe your business directly through the assessment form: we will build the estimate with you.

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