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Automation ROI Calculator

Plug in your numbers and see how much automation could save your shop each year. Takes 60 seconds.

This tool is built for manufacturing shop owners and managers. It estimates how much your operation could save each year by automating repetitive manual tasks and streamlining your quoting process. Enter your real numbers below — or use the defaults to see a typical example.

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Enter Your Numbers

Five fields about your shop: team size, labor rate, and how you spend time on manual work and quoting.

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See Your Savings

The calculator instantly shows estimated annual savings, payback period, and first-year ROI.

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Get a Detailed Report

Enter your email to receive a breakdown with methodology, assumptions, and next steps.

Your Numbers

Everyone on payroll — shop floor, office, management. This helps scale the estimate.

Fully loaded cost (wages + benefits). Not sure? $25–$35/hr is typical for most shops.

Across all employees: data entry, inspection logging, material tracking, spreadsheet updates. Most shops with 10–20 people run 30–60 hrs/week.

Count every quote your team builds — new jobs, requotes, and revisions all count.

From opening the file to sending the PDF. Include material lookup, pricing, and formatting. 60–120 min is typical.

Your Estimated Savings

Labor savings (50% reduction in manual work)$47,600/yr
Quoting time savings (90% reduction with AI)$18,900/yr
Total Annual Savings$66,500
How we calculated these numbers+

50% reduction in manual labor hours

Automation typically eliminates 40–70% of repetitive manual work (data entry, material handling, inspection logging). We use 50% as a conservative mid-range estimate.

90% reduction in quoting time

AI-assisted quoting pulls from your existing price sheets and generates quotes in under a minute. The remaining 10% is your review and approval time.

$20,000 pilot project cost

This reflects a mid-tier automation pilot — enough to automate one key process end-to-end. Actual cost depends on scope; an audit will give you exact numbers.

These are estimates, not guarantees

Every shop is different. This calculator gives you a ballpark to see if automation is worth exploring. For exact numbers based on your specific operation, book an audit.

Payback

4

months

ROI

233%

first year

Pilot Cost

$20,000

estimated

Want exact numbers for your specific operation?

Book a $500 Automation Audit →