Released hours may improve service, absorb growth or reduce backlog without reducing payroll.
Planning tool
Model automation value without inflating the savings.
Use your own operating assumptions to estimate current effort, assisted capacity, operating cost and a planning break-even. The formula remains visible and the result appears without an email gate.
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Visible formula
Every result follows the same transparent steps.
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Current hours = people × minutes per task × monthly volume ÷ 60 × (1 + rework rate) - 02
Assisted hours = current hours × share of handling that could be assisted - 03
Released hours = assisted hours × scenario time reduction - 04
Gross capacity value = released hours × loaded hourly cost - 05
Net monthly planning value = gross capacity value − monthly operating cost - 06
Planning break-even = implementation cost ÷ positive net monthly planning value
Interpretation
Capacity is not the same as cash.
A pilot should verify handling share, time reduction, exception rate and adoption before the base scenario is used commercially.
Include review time, integration maintenance, licences, monitoring and support in the operating cost.
A result that does not reach break-even can still reveal that the process needs redesign—or that automation is the wrong answer.
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