Tallowmere Supply: 61 h a week of copy and paste
A made-up wholesale business with 60 staff, to show the format. Your report is built from timing your own team's work.
Other samples: Product team diagnostic · Operations diagnostic · Pre-sale R&D baseline
Manual hours, weekly61 hacross 5 processes
Worth automating38 hper week
Stays with people23 hjudgement calls
To build the top 2€14k+ €180 / month to run
Where the hours go, and what we'd do
| Process | Today | Proposal | Saved weekly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier invoices into the ERP | 14 h, 2 people | Read invoices, match to orders, a person approves mismatches | 11 h |
| Support inbox | 22 h, 3 people | AI first drafts with personal data swapped out, agent approves each reply | 12 h |
| Order exceptions | 9 h | Flag and route by rule; people handle the flagged ones | 6 h |
| Weekly management report | 6 h | Built automatically from ERP and shop data every Monday | 6 h |
| Returns approval | 10 h | Keep with people: judgement calls on damaged goods | 3 h |
Each line in the full report includes build cost, monthly running cost, and who on your team tests it before it goes live.
Tell us who does what by hand.
Name the person, the job they do by hand, the systems it runs through and roughly how long it takes each day. On the call we'll tell you whether a tool is worth building, and what it would cost to build and run.