You know where the time goes. Now put a number on it.
Convert lost hours into a finance-grade funding case — loaded costs, realistic scenarios and payback — without building the model yourself.
The problem
You can walk the floor and point at the waste. The rekeying between systems. The process that takes four handoffs when it needs one. The questions your experienced people answer for the tenth time this week. Nobody knows where the hours are lost better than you do.
The hard part is the translation. "The team loses hours to this every week" doesn't move a budget. Finance needs the hours priced at fully-loaded cost, netted against what the fix costs, spread across scenarios, with a payback date. Building that model is a different job from running an operation — so the case sits in your head while the waste stays on the floor.
The savings are real when they're measured properly: in Deloitte's UK survey of early automation adopters, implementers reported an average 16% overall cost reduction (Deloitte UK). What separates a funded project from a hallway complaint is a case finance can check.
What you can quantify
Three calculators for the places operations teams lose the most time.
- Process Automation ROI — what are the hours in this manual process worth at loaded cost, and how quickly does automating it pay back?
- Staff Training ROI — what does bringing the team up to speed faster return against the cost of the training itself?
- Knowledge Base ROI — what would it be worth if answers lived in one place instead of in your most experienced people's heads?
Why finance signs off
- Conservative first. Three scenarios on every case — you can lead with the cautious number and let the upside be the surprise, not the promise.
- Hours priced properly. Time savings converted to money through explicit, itemised assumptions — loaded cost, working hours, adoption — all visible in the audit trail, all adjustable.
- Multi-year NPV and IRR. The payback story over time, discounted the way your finance team will check it.
- Sensitivity analysis. A tornado chart shows which assumption moves the result most — usually the one you'll be asked about — so you arrive ready.
How it works
- Describe the work. How many people, how many hours, what it costs, what the fix costs. You already know these numbers.
- Get the funding case. Scenarios, payback and NPV with every assumption itemised — in about ten minutes.
- Send it up. Share a read-only link with your director or finance partner, then come back after rollout to measure what the change actually returned.
Start free
Your first calculator is free forever, with unlimited re-runs — no card, no signup to calculate. Pick the process that wastes the most time this week and price it.