ROI calculator · weekly · monthly · payback
Three inputs · three outputs · a path to the audit.
Plug your team size (1–50), your fully-loaded hourly cost (USD), and the weekly process volume your team currently spends on the targeted workflow. We'll show estimated hours saved per month, monthly cost recovered, and an indicative payback period against a Northbench monthly retainer. Pick a niche below to seed the weekly-hours default — or hand-edit. The headline numbers below are a defensible starting estimate, not a quote; the audit is where the real numbers come from.
- Recruiting · 18 hr/wk baseline
- Accounting · 22 hr/wk baseline
- Property management · 25 hr/wk baseline
- Home services · 20 hr/wk baseline
- Independent insurance agencies · 16 hr/wk baseline
Each vertical carries a defensible working average drawn from operator interviews — switch to Custom to override with your own number from the audit.
4 people
1–50
$45 / hr
$1–$500
total hours the team currently spends on the process you're looking to automate — across the whole roster, not per person
20 / wk
1–80 hr/wk
Illustrative numbers drawn from Northbench's published research on automatable admin (the default 15–25 hr/wk band). Estimate, not a quote.
Estimated outcome
52 hr
per month · ~12 hr/wk reclaimed from the team's current admin load
Cons. 35 hr · Opt. 69 hr
$2,338 / mo
gross · $2,338 − retainer $2,000 = $338 net / mo
Cons. $1,559 / mo · Opt. $3,118 / mo
23.7 mo
implementation band $8,000 – $18,000; high end 53.2 mo
Anchored to published research
The default input lands on 20 hr/wk of current team admin load — inside Northbench's published 15–25 hr/wk band of automatable admin (mid 20).
Math + assumptions
Inputs: teamSize · hourlyCost · weeklyHours · Assumptions: reclaimRate = 60% (band 40–80%) · weeksPerMonth = 4.33 · monthlyRetainer = $2,000
hoursSavedPerWeek = weeklyHours x reclaimRate hoursSavedPerMonth = hoursSavedPerWeek x weeksPerMonth monthlySavingsUsd = hoursSavedPerMonth x hourlyCost monthlyNetSavingsUsd = monthlySavingsUsd − monthlyRetainer paybackMonthsNet = implementationUsdLow / max(monthlyNetSavingsUsd, $1)
Implementation costs use the published band $8,000–$18,000, the monthly retainer pins to $2,000 (the published pricing-tier floor). Reclaim rate stays at 60% because reviews and exception handling still need a human under our principles — the band just years-spans how much of the current effort is automatable. Estimate, not a quote — the audit is where the actual numbers come from.
Next step
Take twenty minutes. Get a written brief.
A workflow audit lands a one-page memo on the chosen process in your vertical — what to automate, what to leave alone, what it should cost monthly. Fully refundable against an implementation within sixty days.
Book a workflow audit
Sixty minutes, one workflow, one written brief. The audit also takes the figure above and turns it into the real number that goes in your budget.
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We'll email you a copy of these numbers and a 10-minute audit intro — no upsell, just the estimate in your hand so you can take it to a budget meeting.