Every business has a couple: the tasks nobody was hired to do that everyone does anyway. Six hours a week writing quotes is about $14,000 a year. Retyping orders into the accounting system, another $9,000. You already pay for these tasks. You have just never seen the invoice.
Build that invoice below. Add every task that eats your week, put in your loaded costs, see the real yearly bill, and what automating each one would pay back. Free, no email needed, and if the honest answer is “not worth automating,” the calculator will tell you that too. When the list is ready, send it to Simon and get one human reply, not a drip campaign.
Build your list
Count everyone who touches it, not just one person.
Loaded cost: wage plus the overhead riding along with it.
A human stays in the loop for approvals. That is the point.
Nothing added yet. The panel on the right previews the task you are setting up; add it to start the running total.
The bill
Previewing: Writing quotes and estimates
Or skip the list and book the free audit directly. Worst case, we tell you AI is not worth it for you yet.
Send the list to Simon
Your numbers, exactly as set, straight to the person who would build it. He reads every one, and you get one honest reply: no newsletter, no drip campaign.
For scale: a Toronto professional-services firm’s list came out at six tasks. It became a six-sprint build that replaced their entire manual billing pipeline.
Before you ask
How accurate is this?
It is an estimate built from your own numbers, so it is as honest as your inputs. The point is scale, not precision: whether a task costs $2,000 or $20,000 a year changes what is worth doing. The free audit is where estimates become a written plan with real figures for your business.
What is a “loaded” hourly cost?
Wage plus everything that rides along with it: payroll taxes, benefits, software seats, management overhead. A $30/hour employee usually costs the business $38 to $45 an hour loaded. If you are not sure, add about a third to the wage.
What happens after I send my list?
Simon reads it (he reads every one) and replies with an honest take on what is worth automating and what is not, usually within a business day. No newsletter, no drip campaign, and “not worth it yet” is a real answer you might get.
The honest math: yearly cost = hours × 52 × loaded hourly cost, summed across your list. Savings assume the automatable share you set per task, with a human approving what matters. Build range: a first workflow typically runs $3,000 to $10,000 fixed, and each additional one costs less because tasks share plumbing (a real six-task build came in near the low end of its range). Payback = total build cost ÷ monthly savings. Estimates, not quotes, which is exactly why the free audit exists.