The routine admin is already being paid for.
In the hours of people you hired to do something else. It never appears on an invoice, so it never gets questioned.
The question isn’t whether to spend money on this
It’s what you’re spending now, every working day, on work nobody was hired for.
So what does doing nothing cost?
Your numbers, your assumption, and arithmetic you can check.
Put your own figures in. Set the assumption yourself; we'd rather you argued with the slider than with us. Nothing leaves your browser.
The bill you’re already paying
Put your own numbers in
How many people, what they cost, and how much of the week goes on routine you could hand over. The result is a range, in your currency, next to what Business Brain costs.
- Over a year
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- Your payroll
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- Per person, per week
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Shown as a range: the lower figure assumes only two thirds of the time recovered turns into anything useful. Working days are counted as 260 a year and a working week as 40 hours. These are your numbers and your assumption. We have not put a thumb on the scale, and none of it leaves your browser. The Business Brain figure is the published monthly price for a team of up to five; larger teams are priced together with server use.
A number you’d defend
We could have made this produce a much bigger figure. Plenty of these calculators do, and nobody believes them.
No heroic assumption
The usual trick is a huge productivity gain applied to the whole payroll, presented as money you’d find in a drawer. The slider starts at five percent, and you move it.
A range, not a point
The lower figure assumes only two thirds of the recovered time turns into anything useful. That’s realistic, so it’s the one to plan on.
The ratio is the point
Business Brain is from £250 a month for a team of up to five. For most businesses it pays for itself well below the line where anyone would argue about the number.
Larger teams are priced together with server use, so the whole team can use everything. Pricing →
The things that are hard to price
Nothing on this page tries to value these, and they're usually the ones that matter most.
The knowledge that leaves
The question that waited
The problem solved twice
The decision made on impression
The confident answer
The owner's evenings
The number above is the floor, not the ceiling