Five answers about one task, and this page works out the hours and the dollars in it.
The result is an illustrative estimate, not a quote. It runs on your five answers and on our own scoping assumptions, and both are printed in full below the calculator. Some answers come back saying the task is not worth automating.
Fill in the five fields and the estimate appears here. Nothing is sent anywhere — the arithmetic runs in this page.
None of this is a quote. A real number needs a look at your actual data and the systems it moves between, which is what the $1,500 audit is for.
The estimate above is complete either way. This emails you the link so the scenario is not lost, and it is how we would reach you if you wanted to take it further.
These are CloudBuilder AI's own scoping assumptions, taken from what a build of each kind has usually been able to take over. They are not drawn from published research, and no study is cited for them anywhere on this page.
The share of a task a build can usually take over, before the platform factor is applied.
The same information typed into a second system. The mapping is mechanical, so most of it moves. Matching records that do not line up is the part that stays.
Reading a document and putting the values somewhere. Clean digital files go through. Poor scans, handwriting and genuine exceptions still need a person.
Pulling the same figures on the same schedule. The pulling and the formatting go almost entirely. Deciding what the numbers mean does not.
Assembling a priced document from known rules. Standard jobs go through. Anything needing a judgement call on price comes back to a person.
Sending the next message when a condition is met. The sending and the tracking go. A real reply is a conversation, and that stays with you.
Finding a slot several people can take. Calendars and confirmations automate well, the negotiating around them does not, which is why this is the lowest range here.
The same questions, answered from information you already publish. The repeat half goes. Anything specific to one account needs a person.
Finding and merging records that should be one record. Rules catch most of it. The ambiguous pairs need somebody to decide.
What the platform does to that share. A system with no documented way in cuts it hard.
Documented, supported interfaces to read from and write to. The share for the task stands as written.
Reachable through a browser session rather than a supported interface. It works, it breaks more often, and part of the task stays manual.
Nothing can be automated until the information is captured digitally. A capture step comes first and takes part of the saving with it.
Automation means driving the screen, which breaks on every software update. Most tasks in this category are not worth automating.
Feasibility cannot be read without knowing the system. This assumes there is a documented way in, which is the first thing an audit checks.
A task can be genuinely annoying and still not be worth building anything around. Two conditions produce that answer here: less than an hour a week of total team time in the task, or a payback longer than two years even at the optimistic end of the range. Desktop-only software reaches the second condition often, because driving a screen breaks on every software update. The calculator returns that verdict as readily as the other one, and the arithmetic that produced it is printed on this page either way.
It has not seen your data, your exceptions, or the state the two systems are actually in. Those are what move a real project inside or outside a range, and they are the difference between an estimate and a price. A field filled in inconsistently for six years, an approval step nobody wrote down, or an API that exists but is switched off on your plan will each change the answer, and none of them are visible from a form with five boxes on it.
The automation audit is $1,500 for half a day with your team and a written map of every repetitive task, with hours-per-month on each, ranked by what is worth automating first. It comes off any build in full. One workflow is $4,500, built and running in three weeks. An operations build covering three to four connected workflows is $12,000. You keep the map either way, including the parts of it that say a task is not worth touching.