QUANTUMGRWTH · AUTOMATE OR NOT

What would you make if this got fixed?

One task, your numbers, one answer: what it pays you every year.

Own your empire. Not its operations.

SETUP

Your business

Rough numbers are fine. Everything updates as you type.

Shows on your printed report.
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Wage plus taxes and benefits. Usually 1.25–1.4× the wage.
LENS 1

The task, and what it costs you

One task. Type your own, or tap one below to swap it in. Recoverable is the share of those hours a system takes off your team — never all of it, because someone still handles exceptions. Build effort is what stops the biggest number from automatically winning.

Task Hours / wk People Rate $/hr Recoverable Build effort

Not your task? Tap one of these instead:

LENS 2

Answer honestly. Saying yes when the answer is no is how these calculators end up lying to you.

 
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Where these numbers come from, and which ones I am guessing at
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Set low on purpose. Nothing wins back all of it.

THE ANSWER

Build this first

YOUR #1 MOVE

THIS PAYS YOU, PER YEAR

$0

TIME TO BUILD

     

    WHAT THIS TASK IS COSTING YOU

    $0

     

    NEW REVENUE

    $0

     

    STAFF TIME FREED

    $0

     

    What comes after

    Only once the first one is live and paying for itself.

    Workflow or AI agent?

    Most owners over-buy here. They pay for an agent when a workflow would have done it for a fraction of the cost.

    Workflow

    Cheaper, faster, and usually the right answer.

    HOW IT DECIDES
    Follows rules you set. If X, do Y.
    BEST FOR
    Predictable work: invoices, confirmations, missed-call text-backs.
    WHEN IT BREAKS
    When reality stops matching the rules you wrote.

    AI agent

    Slower to build, harder to trust, sometimes necessary.

    HOW IT DECIDES
    Reads the situation and picks a path.
    BEST FOR
    Messy inputs: a rambling voicemail, an emergency call to triage.
    WHEN IT BREAKS
    When nobody checks its work.

    The number is not the plan

    This tells you what one fix pays. It does not tell you how the work moves through your office or where it breaks. That takes an hour and one process mapped end to end.

    Now, automate it!