Automation ROI calculator for real operational work.
Put rough numbers against one workflow before you pay anybody to automate it. The calculator deliberately treats human exceptions as part of the system instead of assuming 100% automation.
Automation economics
Is this workflow worth fixing?
Hours spent doing, checking or chasing this workflow.
Salary + overhead, not just take-home pay.
Optional: missed leads, rework, penalties, delayed collections.
Keep this conservative. Humans will still own exceptions.
Use ₹1.5–4L as a rough first-build range.
Illustrative payback
2.1 months
Based on recovered staff capacity plus the leakage value you entered.
Monthly benefit₹1,17,950
Annual benefit₹14,15,400
Labour today₹1,43,000/mo
Capacity recovered₹92,950/mo
This is a decision aid, not an ROI guarantee. Real projects should measure baseline volume, exception rate and actual adoption before claiming savings.
How to use this properly: measure one recurring workflow, not an entire department. Count the hours spent doing the work plus checking, correcting, chasing and rebuilding reports. Put revenue leakage in only when you can defend the number. Then use a conservative automation percentage.
What the calculator cannot tell you
A fast payback estimate does not mean the workflow is technically easy.
Permissions, source-system APIs, data quality, exception frequency and the cost of a wrong automated action can make an apparently attractive process a bad first project. A useful discovery call is mostly about finding those constraints.
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