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Capacity Calculator: the hours your team could get back

Work out how many hours a month automation could hand back to your team, what that means in full-time capacity, and what those hours are worth. It takes about 2 minutes.

Work out your hours

How do I work out the capacity automation could free up? Take the hours your team loses to a workflow each month and estimate the share automation could remove. Then convert it into hours a year and full-time equivalents. The calculator below does it for you.

The calculator

What you'll see in your results

Answer a few quick questions about your team and the workflow you'd like to automate. We'll show you:

  • Hours saved each month across your team
  • Full-time-equivalent capacity freed
  • What those hours are worth at your hourly rate
  • Payback window in months, after maintenance
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Tell us about your team

A few basics about your business

50 employees

This sets how many people the hours are spread across.

Think about tasks like data entry, market research, report generation, email responses, and manual processing.

£

Used to work out what the hours are worth.

It's an estimate. We'll sharpen it together on a call.

Frequently asked questions

How do I work out the capacity automation could free up?
Take the hours your team loses to a workflow each month and estimate the share automation could remove. Multiply by 12 for a year, then divide by 1,820, the UK full-time hours in a year, to get full-time equivalents.
What's realistic for a first automation?
Our clients' first automations have typically given back 20 to 40 hours a month per workflow. A construction platform recovered 25 hours a month from partner onboarding, and a biometrics company cut lead qualification time by 95%.
How soon does automation start giving hours back?
A focused first build goes live in 4 to 8 weeks, and the hours come back from go-live. They grow as the team settles in, so the payback shown here is usually on the cautious side.
What belongs in an automation business case?
Discovery and process mapping, the build, designing where people stay in control, maintenance (commonly 10 to 20% of the build cost a year) and AI usage. Most teams underestimate discovery and overestimate AI usage.
How do I measure hours saved?
Take a baseline before the build, from team estimates, time tracking or a week of observation. Measure the same way 4 to 6 weeks after go-live, once things have run steadily. The difference is your hours saved.

To turn your numbers into a plan, read how to build an AI automation strategy.

Get in touch

Tell us what you're working on

Book a 30-minute call with David, or write to us below. We'll talk through what's worth building, what isn't, and where an intelligence system you own would start.

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What happens next

  1. We'll set up a free 30-minute call

  2. We'll talk through your challenge and what a build would look like

  3. You'll get a clear scope, timeline and price. No sales follow-up.

David Packman, founder of Agenticise

Who you're talking to

Every call is with David, the founder. No sales team or junior consultants, just a working conversation about your bottleneck, what we'd build and what we wouldn't.

Bring half-formed ideas. The call is most useful when it's about the real problem in front of you, not a polished brief.