What automation actually buys you

Pick a scenario, toggle a few automations, and see hours saved and payback in seconds — with your team staying in charge.

Pick a scenario that resembles your business below. The dashboard estimates how many hours you'd save, what it would cost, and how long until it pays back — based on numbers you can adjust. Toggle automations on and off to see which ones move the needle most for your team.

All numbers are illustrative until validated in a discovery session. We use the same calculator on real engagements once we have your actual workflow data.

Quick start
Try the Miramichi Retail Shop preset for a quick taste, then switch to whichever scenario matches your team.
Employees set to the midpoint of the band.
Use exact values for tighter estimates.

Hours saved per month

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Based on employees, tasks, and local cadence.

Annual savings

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Hours saved times hourly rate for 12 months.

Simple payback

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Months to recoup a typical starter package.

Illustrative monthly trend

Estimated $ saved per month
More templates you can add
Toggle to include or exclude. Edit employees and rate or switch to Custom tab.

What this looks like running

A simulated stream of the automations you have toggled on, firing at a realistic cadence. The same shape of feed runs in production, with audit trails and human review queues.
How we estimate these numbers

Like what the numbers show?

These aren't theoretical savings. Edge-local automation means no cloud per-transaction fees eating into your ROI. Let's map this to your workflow.

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Downloads a CSV with your scenario, employees, rate, and projected savings — share it with your team.
Automation works best with clean data input — see Document AI

What actually gets automated

The calculator above is a model. This is the work behind it — the kinds of task we have automated, counted across our own codebases.

  • 44Reporting and dashboardsThe report somebody rebuilds every Monday, produced while they are still asleep.
  • 42Moving and transferring filesFiles that arrive somewhere and have to end up somewhere else, renamed, checked and logged, without anybody dragging them.
  • 18Reading documents and formsInvoices, forms, statements and reports read into fields you can search, instead of retyped.
  • 15Email and notificationsThe chase-up nobody has time to send, sent -- and the alert when something needs a person.
  • 13Scheduling and unattended runsWork that happens on time whether or not anyone remembers, and says so when it does not.

Automation is worth doing where a task is repeated, rule-based, and currently interrupts somebody. Where it is none of those, we will say so rather than quote for it.