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Praha, CZ
ROI · payback

How much will automation save?

The calculator shows what repeated manual work costs you today and how much automating it would save. Enter the minutes per task, how often it's done each month, how many people do it and their hourly cost. You get hours and money saved per month and per year, the payback period and the net benefit over three years.

Gross salary × 1.34 / 160 hours is a fair estimate in Czechia.
Without a prototype, stay conservative: 50–70%.
Savings
Net saving per year

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Hours per month today
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Cost of manual work per month
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Hours saved per month
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Net saving per month
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Payback
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Net benefit over 3 years
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Indicative only. We measure the real share the tool takes over on a prototype.

Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored.

How to use it

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  1. Step01

    Enter the work

    How many minutes one task takes, for example retyping one invoice, and how often it's done per month.

  2. Step02

    Enter the hourly cost

    Gross salary × 1.34 (Czech payroll costs) / 160 hours is a fair estimate of the full hourly cost.

  3. Step03

    Estimate the automated share

    Without a prototype, assume 50 to 70%. We measure the exact number on your data.

  4. Step04

    Add the tool's cost

    Monthly running cost and one-off price. The estimate calculator gives an indicative price.

The formula

The calculator uses no secret numbers:

  • Hours today = minutes per task × times per month × people / 60
  • Cost today = hours × hourly cost
  • Hours saved = hours today × share taken over by the tool
  • Net saving = hours saved × hourly cost − tool running cost
  • Payback = one-off price / net monthly saving

An example

An accountant retypes 300 invoices a month, 5 minutes each. That’s 25 hours a month. At 450 CZK an hour, the manual work costs 11,250 CZK a month. If a tool takes over 80% and costs 1,500 CZK a month to run, the net saving is 7,500 CZK a month, or 90,000 CZK a year. A tool costing 120,000 CZK pays back in 16 months.

Those are illustrative numbers. Use your own.

What to do with the result

If payback comes within two years, automation is usually a good investment. Work out the tool’s price in the estimate calculator, or write to us and we’ll measure the real numbers on a prototype.

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Questions people ask

01How do I work out an employee's hourly cost?

Take the gross salary, multiply by 1.338 (Czech social and health insurance paid by the employer) and divide by hours worked, about 160 a month. For more precision, add workplace costs.

02What share of the work will the tool really take over?

It depends on how uniform the inputs are. For invoices from regular suppliers it's high, for free text lower. Without a prototype, stay conservative at 50 to 70%. We measure the real number on your data.

03What if automation doesn't pay off?

That's a useful answer too. You save the money of a project that wouldn't pay back. Sometimes a simpler fix without AI helps, like a better template or connecting two systems.

04Does it count fewer errors?

No, only time. Savings from fewer errors, faster replies to customers or handling more jobs usually come on top, but are harder to estimate up front.

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