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Automation Savings & Payback Calculator
Estimate released staff capacity, economic benefit and cash payback for one workflow using your own assumptions.
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Assess this workflow for automation
The results are based on your estimates, not a promise of savings or a quotation. Submit only if you want FlyingEze to review the workflow.
How to use it
Separate capacity from cash savings
Every input is your estimate. Released staff time has economic capacity value but is not guaranteed payroll savings. Cash results use only the share you expect to realise as actual cash savings.
Simple payback assumes steady monthly benefits and excludes financing, tax and implementation ramp-up. No industry benchmarks or exchange rates are applied.
- Define one workflow and its monthly volume.
- Estimate staff time, reduction, costs and cash realisation.
- Edit the scenario and recalculate to compare assumptions; copy or print the transparent breakdown.
How the numbers are calculated
Hours released = monthly executions × total staff minutes per execution ÷ 60 × effort reduction fraction. Monthly capacity value = released hours × loaded hourly labour cost.
Monthly net economic benefit = capacity value − monthly recurring costs. Simple economic payback = one-time implementation cost ÷ positive monthly net economic benefit. First-year economic benefit = 12 × monthly net economic benefit − one-time cost.
Cash results use only the cash-realisation percentage you enter before subtracting recurring costs. If either monthly net benefit is zero or negative, there is no payback under those assumptions.