Is it worth it?
What is this bottleneck actually costing you?
“Annoying” is a feeling. This is a number. Put in your own figures and see what one broken workflow costs you a year, and whether fixing it pays for itself.
If it doesn't, the calculator tells you that too.
Your numbers
About $123,360 a year. You'd keep about $2,570 a month. Advisory pays for itself.
Example numbers. Change them to yours.
This workflow is costing you about $123,360 a year.
That's $10,280 a month, until you fix it.
- Owner time
- $62,400 a year
- Team time
- $24,960 a year
- Dropped work
- $36,000 a year
If fixing it won back 25%, you'd keep about $2,570 a month.
| Offer | Price | Pays back? |
|---|---|---|
| AI Operations Sprint$1,000 once | $1,000 once | Yes. Pays back in about 12 days. |
| Operational Advisory$2,500/month | $2,500/month | Yes. Returns $1.03 for every $1, so you're $70 a month ahead. |
| AI Implementation$4,500/month | $4,500/month | No. Returns $0.57 for every $1, so you're $1,930 a month short. |
| Custom Build$7,500/month | $7,500/month | No. Returns $0.34 for every $1, so you're $4,930 a month short. |
Advisory pays for itself
What you'd win back covers the $2,500/month Operational Advisory plan. Every plan starts with the $1,000 Sprint, which measures your real baseline before you commit to anything monthly.
See the SprintEstimates from example numbers. Not a quote, and not a promise.
How the math works
No black box.
- Owner time
- Your hours a week on work the team should handle, times what an hour of your time is worth, times 52 weeks.
- Team time
- People who touch the workflow, times the hours each loses a week, times their loaded hourly cost, times 52 weeks.
- Dropped work
- Jobs, leads, or requests that slip each month, times the average value of each, times 12 months.
Add the three for the yearly cost. Divide by 12, then multiply by the share you expect to win back. That's what you'd keep each month.
A monthly plan pays for itself when that covers its price.
The $1,000 Sprint's payback is how many days of that monthly amount it takes to add up to $1,000. If that takes longer than a month, we don't call it paid back.
Want the real number instead of an estimate?
The free Snapshot maps one workflow in 15 minutes. The Sprint measures it for real in 1 week.