Map the process
Document volumes, exceptions and manual checks.
IRAH / DECISION SUPPORT
Can automation return meaningful time to your team?
Estimate a working range of potential staff hours recovered. Change the assumptions to match a real workflow. This is a planning model, not a savings guarantee or implementation quote.
01 / ASSUMPTIONS
Start with the actual work.
Use monthly volume and a fully loaded hourly cost, not salary alone. Eligible work excludes tasks that require independent human judgment or unsupported decisions.
02 / ILLUSTRATIVE OUTPUTNET HOURS POTENTIALLY RECOVERABLE EACH MONTH93 hours
Current manual hours / month1,000
Gross recovered hours160
Additional review hours− 67
Potential labour-time value / month₹46,667
Annualised labour-time value₹5,60,000
Excludes software costs, integration, licensing, exceptions, training, quality-control overhead beyond the modelled review time and any change in demand. Recovered time is not necessarily a cash saving. Do not treat this as ROI or a promised reduction in headcount.
Request a workflow assessment ↗03 / VALIDATE BEFORE INVESTMENT
Test the assumptions, not just the arithmetic.
Start with a representative sample, identify how many items truly qualify, measure corrections and rework, and determine whether existing systems permit a safe integration.
Pilot a bounded workflow
Measure accuracy, escalation and reviewer time.
Compare total cost
Include software, support and operational changes.