Productivity and operations
Business automation finder
Find the processes in your business most worth automating, ranked by the time you could get back.
Tick the processes you run, say roughly how many hours a week each takes and how repetitive it is. You get a ranked list of automation opportunities with estimated hours saved, quick wins and a suggested approach for each.
You will need
- A rough idea of weekly hours spent on admin tasks
- Optional: your average hourly employment cost
How it works
Hours saved per week = Your hours × a typical automatable share for that process (40–80%) × how repetitive it is (same every time 100%, some variation 60%, different every time 20%). Processes are ranked by hours saved × how easy they usually are to automate. Quick wins are easy processes you said are the same every time. Yearly figures use 46 working weeks.
Assumptions
- Typical automatable shares come from common small-business automation outcomes and are deliberately cautious.
- Dollar values use the hourly cost you enter and count freed-up time, not guaranteed cash savings.
Limitations
- It does not include the cost of the tools or setup; use the ROI calculator for that.
- Your own process may be more or less automatable than typical.