Embed the calculator on your site
The automation ROI calculator can be placed on any site, free of charge, with one line of HTML. It runs entirely in the visitor's browser: nothing they type reaches us or anybody else, so embedding it creates no data obligation for you.
The code
<iframe src="https://fdeinsider.com/embed/roi-calculator/" width="100%" height="900" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Automation ROI calculator"></iframe>Adjust the height to suit your layout. Nine hundred pixels fits the whole tool on a desktop column without an inner scrollbar; on a narrow column you will want more.
What we ask in return
Keep the credit link visible. It sits under the calculator, it is not obtrusive, and it is the only thing we ask. Do not remove it with CSS, and do not present the tool as your own work. Beyond that there is no attribution requirement, no registration and no key.
Do not modify the arithmetic. If you need a different working year than the 47 weeks used here, or a different set of inputs, write to us rather than reimplementing it: a copy that drifts from the version we maintain will eventually disagree with the page it credits, which helps nobody.
What it is not
The calculator produces an estimate from the visitor's own assumptions. It is not a benchmark, it holds no industry data, and it must not be presented as a projection of what a particular product or service will deliver. If you are embedding it next to something you sell, that distinction matters both for your visitors and for you.
Live preview
This is exactly what your visitors will see, minus your own page around it.
The work today
Everyone who spends time on it, not just one team.
Time on this task alone.
Salary plus employer costs.
What the project would cost
Be pessimistic. Usually under 50 %.
Build, integration and rollout together.
Licences, hosting, maintenance.
Hours freed per year
1,175
Value, net of running cost
$58,500
Pays for itself in
12.3 months
- Hours freed
- 10 people × 5 h × 47 weeks × 50 % = 1,175 h
- Value of those hours
- 1,175 h × $60 = $70,500
- Year one, everything deducted
- $70,500 − $12,000 − $60,000 = -$1,500
Questions
Write to contact@fdeinsider.com. If you have embedded it, we would genuinely like to know where: it is the only way we find out whether the tool is useful outside our own pages. The full method, including what the calculator deliberately leaves out, is on the calculator page at FDE Insider.