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What could AI actually automate for you?

Pick your industry, check off where time leaks, and get a ranked automation map — which workflows to automate first, how many hours a week each gives back, and what that's worth per year. The same triage we run on a discovery call, done in your browser.

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Estimates are planning numbers, not a quote. Each opportunity uses a typical weekly-hours baseline for a small team, scaled to your headcount; annual value is hours × 52 × your loaded cost. "Loaded" means wage plus taxes, benefits, and overhead — usually 1.25–1.4× base wage. Revenue items (missed calls, slow follow-up) are flagged separately because their upside is recovered jobs, not just reclaimed time.
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How many team hours could you reclaim per year?

Invoice chasing, data re-entry, appointment reminders, lead routing, report building. Plug in your team numbers and see what the repetitive work costs you per year — and what automation gives back.

Industry benchmark: 60–70% of repetitive admin work in a service business can be automated with current AI. We default to 60%.
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"Loaded" hourly cost means wages plus taxes, benefits, and overhead — typically 1.25–1.4× the base wage. The hours don't disappear from payroll; they get redeployed to work that grows revenue: follow-ups, estimates, customers. That's where the real return hides.

If your number is under 40 hrs/month

Start with off-the-shelf tools — Zapier, your CRM's built-in automations. Custom isn't worth it yet. Our automation playbook shows which workflows to try first.

If your number is over 40 hrs/month

That's half an employee doing work a system should do. Custom workflow automation typically pays for itself inside two months at this volume. Book a free call and we'll map your specific workflows.

How the ranking works

No black box. We rank by return, not by what we sell.

Every opportunity you check gets sized by the hours it typically removes and the revenue it protects, then sorted highest-return first. The top item is tagged Start here — because automating one painful workflow well beats half-automating five. Quick wins (low effort, fast payback) are flagged so you can ship something this month. Each card links to how we'd actually build it, and to the deeper calculators when there's real money to model: the missed-call ROI calculator and the automation hours calculator built into this page below. Not sure you're ready to build yet? Take the AI readiness scorecard first — and grab ready-to-use prompts from the AI prompt generator.

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