ROI calculator

What is your time worth?

Slide the numbers to match your business and see what comes back. No email required.

Your numbers

Rough estimates are fine.

0Web forms, ad inquiries, callbacks60
$50What one won customer is worth$5,000
1Your rough close rate today8

Built into the math: $697 one-time setup, no monthly. Instant replies win back about 20% of leads lost to slow follow-up. Full pricing ›

Your potential return

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$0recovered, per month
Slow-reply leads won back, monthly0 leads
Revenue recovered, monthly$0
Annual recovery$0
Year-one net return (after setup)$0
Break-even point,
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Your numbers

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0After hours, on a job, on the other line50
$50Your typical ticket or invoice$5,000
1Most booking & FAQ calls run 2–6 minutes15

Built into the math: $1,497 one-time agent setup · $197/mo management · $0.20/min average talk time on the calls you currently miss. Full pricing ›

Your potential return

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$0net recovered, per month
Missed calls turned into jobs, monthly0 jobs
Revenue recovered, monthly$0
Talk-time cost, monthly−$0
Management cost, monthly−$197
Annual recovery$0
Year-one net return (after all costs)$0
Break-even point,
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Your numbers

Rough estimates are fine.

1You count too, owners included25
0Email, scheduling, invoices, quotes40
$25Billable rate or what it costs you$250

Built into the math: a typical $497 one-time setup · $197/mo ongoing management. Full pricing ›

Your potential return

Updated live as you slide.

$0back in your business, per month
Hours reclaimed each week, team-wide0 hrs
Value of that time, monthly$0
Management cost, monthly−$197
Annual recovery$0
Year-one net return (after all costs)$0
Break-even point,
Slide your numbers to see how fast the setup pays for itself.

Year one

The cost of doing nothing.

Your calculator inputs, compared two ways over the next 12 months.

Keep doing it by hand
Repetitive work burned this year$0
Set it up once,
One-time setup + 12 months of costs$0
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Benchmarks

Why these assumptions.

70%

Of repeat hours recovered, the conservative end of benchmarks.

1–3 mo

Typical payback: weeks for simple setups, a quarter for bigger ones.

40%

Of missed calls an AI receptionist turns into booked jobs.

95%

Fewer re-keying errors with automatic double-checking.

Beyond the math

The value compounds.

Dollars are the floor, not the ceiling. Three returns no slider captures.

Time recovery

Hours shift from copy-paste to the work your team was hired for: selling, serving customers, growing.

Error reduction

Automatic double-checking cuts re-keying errors. Fewer corrections, fewer refunds, fewer apologies.

Employee retention

Teams that shed tedious work stay longer. Replacing one hire costs 50–200% of their salary, savings this calculator skips.

FAQ

Calculator questions.

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How accurate is this calculator?
It's straight arithmetic on your inputs: people × hours × hourly value × 52 weeks, plus missed-call revenue, minus setup and monthly costs. Every slider is a fact about your business today, not a guess about how an agent performs. Benchmarks put automation's recovery at 60–80% of repetitive-task time; we use 70%. Want a conservative read? Slide hours down to what you're sure of.
How fast do small businesses actually break even?
Most setups break even in weeks, not months. At the defaults, 2 people, 10 hours a week, $75/hour, break-even lands inside the first month. Simple automations like email sorting, scheduling, and invoice prep pay back fastest; bigger integrations inside a quarter.
What kinds of tasks can AI take over?
Repetitive work: email drafting and routing, scheduling, invoice and quote prep, customer list updates, meeting notes, reports, and routine customer questions. Add an AI voice agent and your phones get answered around the clock too. Judgment calls and relationships stay yours.
What does a setup really cost?
The calculators use our real averages: a typical $497 one-time setup (automation) or $1,497 agent setup (voice), $197/month management, and a $0.20/minute talk-time rate for voice agents. No retainers, no per-person fees, your exact quote up front. See full pricing.
Is this only worth it for bigger companies?
The opposite. Small teams often see the highest ROI, because manual work is a bigger share of their costs. A 2-person shop reclaiming 14 hours a week gets back a part-time hire, every week, with no added headcount.

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