Step 1 — How often does it happen?
Per week, honestly. The average, not the busy weeks.
The repetitive internal work — copying data between systems, chasing handoffs, assembling the same report every month — handled by software instead of someone on your team.
There’s a point where the business works and the reward is more work.
More clients means more data copied between WhatsApp, a spreadsheet and an invoice. More jobs means someone spending Tuesday morning assembling a report that could assemble itself. More volume means more handoffs and more “did anyone action that?”
So you hire. And the new person spends a meaningful share of their week on tasks a computer should do, which means your costs grow in step with revenue. That isn’t scaling.
The question isn’t “could this be automated?”
Almost anything could. It’s “what is this costing, and would automating it pay for itself?”
Five minutes of maths that decides whether an automation is worth building.
Per week, honestly. The average, not the busy weeks.
Including the context-switching around it, which is usually underestimated.
Salary plus everything on top, divided by working hours.
Example: a task done 10 times a week, taking 12 minutes, at PKR 800/hour loaded = 2 hours a week = about PKR 83K a year.
If automating costs PKR 125K plus PKR 20K a month, that’s PKR 365K in year one against PKR 83K saved. Don’t build it.
Now run the same maths on something happening 40 times a week taking 15 minutes: 10 hours a week, roughly PKR 416K a year. That pays for itself in months.
Automation earns its place when a task consumes more than about four hours a week across the team, or when the cost of getting it wrong is high. Below that, a person doing it is genuinely cheaper — and we’ll say so.
Some processes are worth automating at modest hours because human error in them is expensive. Invoicing, compliance records, anything where a missed step costs real money.
We look at what exists, what’s working and what isn’t, then agree a written scope and fixed price before anything starts.
The decisions that matter get made first — architecture, targeting or process mapping depending on the work.
Delivery, with everything documented as we go rather than at the end.
Checked properly before it goes live, not after someone reports a problem.
Reporting on what the work produced, with a call rather than just a document.
The process isn’t consistent, or the maths above doesn’t work.
This phase amplifies whatever it’s built on.
A clean process gets faster; a messy one gets messier at speed. It depends most on phase three, because automation needs structured, consistent data. If your systems are already in good shape, you can start here.
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| Feature | Essential | GrowthMost Popular | Advanced | Custom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Setup | PKR 55K | PKR 125K | PKR 250K | FromPKR 450K |
| Knowledge base | Up to 30 answers | Up to 100 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Monitoring and tuning PKR 15K–40K/month. AI usage billed at cost.
Monitoring PKR 15K–40K/month.
Get a free automation audit. We’ll run the numbers on your repetitive processes and tell you which ones are worth automating, and which are cheaper left with a person.