See what manual paperwork costs your back office.
Price the work your team re-keys and reviews by hand, not a whole salary. The same math a skeptical owner runs before spending a dollar on automation.
The manual work costs about
$53,520a year
- 2 people × 12 hrs/week
- 24 hrs/week
- 24 hrs × 52 weeks × $40/hr
- $49,920
- $300/month in errors × 12
- $3,600
This is the cost of the work you would hand to an agent. Not a whole salary, and not your team. Just the hours they spend re-keying and reviewing, plus what a slipped error costs.
It does not even count the surge hire when work spikes, or the deep-focus work your best people lose every time they stop to key a form. Those cost you too.
Kommon runs that same work in your own tools, with your team approving every result. Scale the work without the next hire.
An estimate from your inputs, not a quote. When we scope your workflow we measure your real baseline before we build, then measure again after, so the comparison is yours, not a template.
Why the work you hand off, not a whole salary
- Nobody on your team is a full-time paperwork clerk. They re-key and review between ten other jobs, so the cost hides inside a role you already pay for.
- Comparing a whole salary against an agent overstates the case, and a careful owner will not trust math that does not hold up. So this prices only the hours you would actually hand off.
- Two costs the number leaves out: the extra person you hire when work surges, and the deep-focus hours your best people lose every time they stop to key a form.
For the same idea worked through by hand, see the real cost of one back-office workflow, or, if you already outsource this work, replacing the work you send offshore.
You still make every call
An agent removes the typing and the cross-checking, not your judgment. It reads the paperwork, enters the data into the tools you already run, and flags anything that does not line up. Nothing posts until a person on your team approves it.
Bring your number to a founder
You have the figure. Now bring us the workflow behind it, and we will show you that same work running as an agent in your tools, with your people approving. No call required, we read it and email you back.
Questions we get asked
- How is the number calculated?
- People doing the paperwork times hours a week each, times 52 weeks, times your loaded cost per hour, plus any monthly error or overpayment cost times 12. Every figure is one you enter, and the arithmetic is shown on screen so you can check it.
- Why not just compare it to a whole salary?
- Because nobody on your team only does paperwork. They do it between ten other jobs. Pricing a whole salary against an agent overstates the case and does not hold up. This tool prices only the work you would actually hand off.
- Where do the default hours come from?
- The FMI and Autodesk Construction Disconnected report (2018) found construction professionals lose about 35% of their time, over 14 hours a week, to non-productive paperwork. The defaults are a starting point. Replace them with your real numbers.
- Are you trying to replace my staff?
- No. The agent takes the repetitive re-keying and review off their plate so they can do the work you hired them for. It is capacity, not a layoff. Your team still approves every result.
- Is this an exact quote?
- No. It is a transparent estimate from your inputs. When we scope your workflow we measure your real baseline before we build, then measure again after, so you see both numbers.