Estimate only, for illustration. We assume roughly 70% of tracked manual hours can realistically be automated, and that half of recovered hours redirected to business development produce one new deal per 4 hours of follow-up. A Discovery Call replaces these assumptions with your actual numbers.
Most owners underestimate this cost by half. It's not one big problem, it's dozens of small re-typed fields, chased approvals, and manually reconciled reports.
5 people spend 6 hours a week each on manual admin at a $35 loaded hourly cost. That's $54,600 a year in manual-work cost, and roughly 1,092 hours a year that a system could give back.
Every hour spent re-typing or chasing status is an hour not spent following up with a lead, quoting a job, or serving a customer who's already paying you.