ROI Calculator

Find Out What Manual Work Is Costing You

Answer 4 questions. Build a transparent annual opportunity model in 30 seconds.

Your Numbers
Use your effective hourly rate: what your time is actually worth.
e.g. sending follow-up emails, copying data between systems, chasing invoices, scheduling reminders
The model applies a 15% recovery assumption to these leads. Adjust the input conservatively.
Your Automation Opportunity
520
Hours your team gets back
$39,000
Annual value of time recovered
$54,000
Est. annual revenue lost to slow follow-up
$93,000
Total automation opportunity
Estimates are conservative. Actual results vary by industry and implementation.
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What Goes Into the Math

Time Recovery

We measure the hours your team spends on tasks a workflow can do: follow-ups, reminders, data entry, scheduling. At your effective rate, that's real money.

Average service business: 8–15 hrs/week on automatable tasks
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Lead Response Revenue

The model applies a 15% recovery assumption to the slow-response leads you enter. Change the lead count to test a more conservative or aggressive scenario.

Modeled assumption · not a guaranteed conversion rate
Review Velocity

Review requests can matter, but this calculator does not assign them a dollar value. That keeps the total tied to the time and lead assumptions you can inspect.

Excluded from the dollar total

What It Costs to Fix This

Compare the projected return against a managed monthly product or a scoped custom implementation.

Starter automation
Starter
1–2 workflows
$2,500 – $7,500
e.g. lead response + review request
Core stack
Core Stack
3–4 workflows
$8,000 – $20,000
e.g. full follow-up + onboarding + reviews
Full operations
Full Operations
5+ workflows
$30,000+
e.g. everything automated across the business

Compare the scoped cost with savings you can validate from your own records.

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Questions
we get
a lot.

Don't see your question? Email us at info@aplosai.com

This is a planning model, not a forecast. It multiplies the hours and rate you enter, uses a 52-week year, and applies a visible 15% assumption to slow-responded leads. Replace the defaults with your own numbers and validate the result against actual records.

There is no universal payback period. Divide the all-in implementation cost by the monthly savings you can validate from your own records. Use conservative assumptions and exclude benefits you cannot measure.

Yes. The calculator uses your own hourly value, manual hours, lead volume, and average job value. Treat recovered time as capacity, not guaranteed cash revenue.

We review your current tools, identify the 3–5 highest-impact automations for your specific business, estimate build hours and cost, and give you a prioritized roadmap. No obligation, no pitch: just the map.

Most individual workflow builds take 1–2 weeks. A full operations stack (5+ workflows) takes 4–6 weeks. Everything is scoped before any work begins so there are no surprises.

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