Before
The same data typed into two systems that don't talk to each other.
After
Type it once. The second system is updated for you, every time.
Plain automation
Stop re-keying the same data into two systems
The same data typed into two systems that don't talk to each other. Type it once. The second system is updated for you, every time.
- Free evaluation
- Fixed quote before work begins
- First deliverables in 30 days, guaranteed
- No staff replaced
What this costs you today
An order, a customer, an invoice goes into one system. Then someone types the same thing into a second system, because the two were never connected. It happens a few dozen times a day, in the gaps between other work, so nobody sees it as a job. It is one.
Every re-key is a chance for a typo. When the two systems disagree, someone has to work out which one is right, and that takes longer than the typing did.
Call a fully loaded employee $45,000 a year, as an illustration. In the companies we meet, re-keying typically eats 5 to 10 hours a week across the people who do it. Ten hours is a quarter of a person, spent typing what a computer already has.
- Typical time
- 10 hrs / week
- That is
- a quarter of a person
- At an illustrative $45,000 a year
- $11,250 / year
Typical figures, using $45,000 as an illustrative fully loaded cost. Your numbers go in the calculator below. If your version is a couple of hours a week, that still counts.
What CBIT builds instead
We connect the two systems. When a record is saved in the first, the second is updated for you. If a system has a proper connection, we use it. If it only has screens, the automation fills them in the way a person would.
We map the fields once, with you, so the right data lands in the right place. If a record cannot be matched, it is set aside with a note rather than guessed at.
Plain automation handles most repetitive work. We use newer tools only where they clearly earn their place, and we tell you when we do. Connecting two systems does not need them.
What the person gets back is the second entry. They type it once and move on.
Is this AI?
This is plain automation. No AI. The two systems need to be connected. Once they are, the second entry happens on its own.
Automation vs. AI: which one your task needsOne example, names left out
Real work from real clients, with the names left out. What matters is the shape of the problem, and how often we see it.
What shapes the scope and the quote
This kind of project
A focused version may be a small project
Two systems with proper connections and a short list of fields is a small, clearly defined job. Systems with screens but no connection, or records that need matching before they can be copied, take more work. We look at both systems before we recommend anything.
- Small tasks and larger workflows are both welcome. We look at what needs to happen and give you a fixed quote before work begins. No hourly meter.
- First deliverables in 30 days from kickoff, guaranteed.
- Changes to outside systems (a portal redesign, a vendor's API change) may require separately quoted repair work. We tell you when that happens.
Run your own numbers.
Set to the typical figures for this task. Change them to match your team, however small the number.
What this task costs you in time
Hours a week, times the people doing it, at whatever a person costs you. $45,000 a year is an illustration; set it to your own figure.
People doing this work
1
Hours each, per week
Half an hour counts. 40 is a full week.
10
Fully loaded cost per person, per year
Salary, benefits, taxes, overhead. $45,000 is an illustration; set it to yours.
$45,000
Time spent on this task
10 hrs / week
About 520 hours a year of a person's time.
- Labor value of that time
- $11,250 / year
- Your project price
- Fixed quote after a free evaluation
Tell us about this task
These figures show the value of time spent on the task, not a project quote or guaranteed cash savings. We will help estimate what can realistically be automated.
Tell us about the task your team keeps doing by hand.
Every morning, every Friday, or every time an order comes in. Small tasks and larger workflows are both welcome. The evaluation is free, and if we take it on, first deliverables are running in your operation within 30 days of kickoff.
Free evaluation. Fixed quote before work begins.
Related tasks
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Plain automation
Automate reviewing daily files to find new accounts
One scheduled run. About three minutes a day, and it flags anything that doesn't match.
Everything we automate
Fourteen tasks, each with what it takes today, what we build instead, and what shapes the scope.