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What is manual work actually costing you?

Move the sliders to match your team's reality. We'll tally the hours and pounds lost to repetitive admin each year — and what a focused automation project could realistically hand back.

Your numbers

People doing this manual work 2
Anyone spending real time on admin, data entry, or repeated enquiries.
Hours per week, per person, on manual tasks 6
Spreadsheets, chasing updates, copying data between tools, repeated replies.
Average cost per hour £22
Wage plus overhead, or your own time if it's you doing the work.
Working weeks per year 46
Cost of Manual Work
Annual estimate
Hours lost / week12 hrs
Hours lost / year552 hrs
Cost / year, unaddressed£12,144

Recoverable via automation* £7,890
≈ working weeks back / year 7.5 wks
*Based on a typical 65% reduction in manual hours once repeat tasks are automated — conservative for enquiry handling, reporting and data entry.
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