Pick the calculator that matches your operation. Each one runs the math on two losses that compound silently: the hours your team spends on manual work, and the revenue that leaks through gaps automation closes. Benchmarks come from industry studies and from systems we have deployed. Inputs stay in your browser. No signups, no email gate.
Runs the math on three losses most multi-channel stores carry without naming: manual order entry across Shopify and Amazon, daily channel sync time, and the abandoned cart revenue that never gets recovered without an automated email or WhatsApp sequence. A 500-order-per-month store at industry-baseline abandonment usually sees a six-figure annual loss. The calculator returns a specific number for your volume, average order value, and channel count. No email gate.
Open the ecommerce calculator →Estimates the cost of slow lead response and manual inquiry triage. The Harvard Business Review study on online sales lead response (Oldroyd, Elkington, McFarland 2011) drives the close-rate model. Inputs are weekly inquiries, average deal value, your current response time in minutes, and your current close rate. Output is the deals you are leaving on the table this year and the staff hours your team currently spends sorting leads by hand.
Preview the auto dealer calculator →Models the two recoverable losses most CHA and freight operators carry: documentation hours that an n8n workflow removes entirely, and demurrage charges that pile up because nobody is monitoring the alert queue. Inputs are monthly shipments, demurrage incidents per quarter, average days held per incident, and your weekly documentation hours. Output is the annual recoverable spend, with separate lines for time cost and demurrage exposure.
Preview the logistics calculator →Calculates the revenue lost to no-shows, the staff hours burned on manual reminder calls, and the recall patients who quietly fall off the schedule when there is no automated sequence chasing them. Inputs are weekly appointments, current no-show rate, average treatment value, and number of locations. The no-show recovery math uses meta-analyses of SMS reminder studies in healthcare.
Preview the dental clinic calculator →Every calculator on this page uses the same labor cost model. We take an annual salary you enter (default is $52,000 USD, the rough US median for admin and support staff), multiply by 1.3 to load in benefits, employer taxes, software, and the cost of the desk that person sits at, then divide by 2,080 standard annual work hours. That gives you a fully loaded hourly cost of about $32.50 at the default salary.
The 1.3 overhead multiplier comes from Jeffrey Hadzima's MIT Enterprise Forum piece on employee cost. It sits inside the standard 1.25 to 1.4 range that accountants use when modeling true headcount cost. If you run lean on benefits and software, your actual multiplier is closer to 1.2. If you offer richer benefits, it is closer to 1.4. You can override the salary input on every spoke.
From there, each calculator uses industry-specific time benchmarks for the manual tasks involved. Order entry takes about 3 minutes per order. Manual lead triage runs closer to 8 minutes per inquiry. Customs documentation is the biggest single block at roughly 45 minutes per shipment, and it varies hard by trade lane.
These are directional numbers. Your actuals will vary by roughly 20% in either direction depending on tool stack, team experience, and operation size. The output is meant to tell you whether automation is worth a 30-minute conversation, not to replace a custom audit.
A generic ROI calculator hides the number that actually matters. An auto dealership's bottleneck is response time on inbound inquiries. A dental practice's is no-show rate and recall drop-off. A freight forwarder's is demurrage and customs paperwork. These three operations have almost nothing in common at the unit-economics level, even if they all benefit from automation.
Putting them through the same formula produces an average that is wrong for every individual case. The dealer underestimates because the calculator did not ask about response time. The dental practice underestimates because the calculator did not weight recall revenue. The freight forwarder underestimates because the calculator does not know what demurrage is.
Industry-specific calculators ask the right question and apply the right benchmark. The numbers you get back here are the ones you can actually defend in a conversation with your CFO or with your own head.
Pre-questions about the calculators, the math, and what happens when you finish one.
Each calculator above is built around the bottleneck for that industry. The 30-minute audit walks through your stack and your current manual work. We send a written automation plan within 48 hours of the call. No follow-up sales sequence.
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