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Calculate your AI automation savings

See how much your New Zealand business could save by automating one repetitive task. Four numbers in, and you get the monthly cost, the hours handed back and an indicative return, so you can make a data-driven decision.

DiscoveryFree, then fixed price
Typical build2 to 6 weeks
BasedAuckland, working NZ-wide
Your numbersFour fields, NZD

One repetitive task, costed

Pick a single manual task your team repeats every day, such as re-keying quotes, chasing invoices or answering the same email. Enter what it costs you today.

Task information
Cost information

Indicative only. Nothing is stored and no sign-up is needed.

Savings estimatePer month, NZDIndicative

Your potential savings

Fill in the four numbers and press Calculate. You will get the monthly cost of doing the task by hand, the net saving once it is automated, the hours handed back to your team, and an indicative return on the running cost.

Cost
What the task costs you each month today
Saving
Net of the automation's own running cost
Hours
Staff time handed back per month
ROI
Return on the monthly running cost

How the numbers work

The assumptions, in the open

This calculator is deliberately simple. It gives you a fast, honest sense of scale, not a quote. The real figure depends on the systems involved, which I work out with you for free before any build is priced.

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Cost today

Tasks per day, times minutes per task, times your hourly cost

Multiplied by your working days to give the monthly cost of doing the task by hand. Use the fully loaded hourly cost of the person doing it, not just their wage, if you want a truer number.

Time removed

90% of the manual time goes away

A well-built automation handles the routine cases end to end. The remaining 10% covers exceptions, checks and the odd case a person still needs to look at.

Running cost

About $0.50 per automated task

A rough allowance for AI model calls, hosting and the services the automation talks to. Simple tasks cost less, document-heavy ones a little more.

Not included

The one-off build cost

Every project is quoted as a fixed price after a free discovery call, so the build cost is not in this estimate. Most builds take two to six weeks and pay back inside the first year.

Ready to start saving?

Book a free 30-minute call and we will work through which of your processes are worth automating first, and what each one would cost as a fixed price.

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