Work it out yourself
What is the current way costing you?
Four numbers you already know, and an estimate of what re-keying, chasing and reconciling takes out of your year. No email, no gate, nothing stored.
The estimate
Anyone re-keying, chasing, reconciling or assembling a report by hand.
Only the handling. Not their whole job.
Salary plus what the role actually costs you. A rough figure is fine.
Chasing a wrong number, redoing a report, fixing a mis-keyed record.
What the current way costs, a year
₦3,885,000
1,924 hours — about 241 working days of someone’s year.
- Handling
- ₦3,360,000
- Errors and rework
- ₦525,000
- Effective hourly cost
- ₦2,019
What a system typically recovers
₦1,554,000 to ₦2,719,500
A range, not a number. Where an engagement lands inside it depends on how much of the work is genuinely automatable — which is the question the Map phase answers, and not one anyone can answer from a form.
What this does not count
- The cost of the system. Build, licences and support are real and are not in the figure above.
- Decisions made late. Usually the largest cost, and the hardest to put a number on.
- Revenue lost to a slow quote, a missed delivery or an unreconciled invoice.
- The people. Removing handling rarely removes a role. It usually moves someone onto work that was being neglected.
- Change. Training, migration and running alongside the old way all take time from the same people.
Nothing you type here is sent anywhere or stored. Work it out, close the tab, and come back to us with a figure of your own if it is worth a conversation.
Why this gives you a range
Every calculator like this could be tuned to produce a bigger figure. Ours is not.
A single return-on-investment number for an operation nobody has walked through is a guess wearing a decimal point. What actually determines the answer is how much of the handling is genuinely automatable, and that is only knowable once someone has sat with the people doing it.
So the figure above is deliberately conservative in two directions. It counts only time, at cost — not the revenue a slow quote loses or the decisions a late report delays, which are usually larger and far harder to defend. And it puts the recoverable share in a band wide enough to be honest about what we don’t yet know.
If the number is small, that is a real answer and you should keep your money. If it is large enough to be uncomfortable, that is worth an hour of someone’s time. Book the walkthrough →
Bring us your number. We’ll argue with it.
The first conversation costs nothing and often ends with us saying you don’t need a build yet. That’s a useful answer too.