Active work is not waiting time
Manual hours count hands-on effort. Queue time may still matter, but it should be measured as speed or service delay.
Transparent estimator
Model the opportunity without pretending it is a promise.
Change the manual hours, loaded cost, working weeks, currency, and illustrative reduction. The result separates current effort from potential capacity.
Editable assumptions
Active work, not queue time.
Pay plus relevant employment overhead.
This is not a default success rate. Lower it when exceptions, adoption, or source data are uncertain.
Illustrative annual view
Manual hours960
Manual cost$33,600
Potential capacity384h
Capacity value$13,440
Formula: weekly manual hours × working weeks. Illustrative capacity applies the selected percentage to those hours. Currency values apply the loaded hourly cost.
This is not a savings guarantee, business valuation, or project quote. It excludes implementation, software, review, exception, maintenance, tax, adoption, and change costs. Reclaimed capacity does not automatically become cash savings.
Interpretation
Four distinctions keep the estimate useful.
Capacity is not automatic cash
Reclaimed fragments of time may improve response or absorb growth without reducing payroll.
Exceptions remain real work
Review, correction, failed runs, and changing rules reduce the share of work a system can handle.
Implementation is not free
Discovery, software, usage, testing, security, training, maintenance, and internal ownership belong in the business case.
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