Every business pays an invisible tax in wasted hours, preventable errors, and headcount creep. Enter five numbers — see yours in under two minutes.
Projection compounds at 15%/year — the tax grows as SaaS sprawl, data volume, and wage inflation rise.
We'll send a detailed breakdown plus the three fastest ways to eliminate your biggest tax category.
This calculator is step 0 — a directional figure from five inputs. The $497 Manual Work Tax Diagnostic is where the program actually starts: an analyst maps where your people move information by hand, benchmarks you against peers, and ranks the three processes worth eliminating first. Typical finding: around $80,000/year of recoverable work.
From there the ladder is priced end to end — roughly $15K to deploy an agent on process one, then $2K–$5K/month to run it as a managed AI workforce. Money back if the Diagnostic doesn't surface at least $10K in eliminable annual work.
The calculator rolls them into three cost pools. Here's what sits inside each one.
Data entered once, retyped into another system. Every re-entry wastes time and creates error risk.
Critical numbers living in spreadsheets because tools don't talk. Unauditable, fragile, maintained by one person.
The second cost of every manual error — diagnosis, fix, follow-up, apology. Usually larger than the original task.
Your most expensive people spending time coordinating work instead of doing it — status-chasing, tab-switching, reconciliation.
Hiring to scale capacity that software could absorb at zero marginal cost — locked in as permanent payroll and overhead.
Each category explained with examples, how to spot it, and how to eliminate it in your operation.
Read the ArticleThe $497 Diagnostic replaces this estimate with your real number, a peer benchmark, and three ranked processes to hand to an AI agent. Prefer to talk first? The 30-minute MWT Audit is free.