Before
A weekly report assembled from four spreadsheets and two emails, by the one person who knows how.
After
It builds itself every Monday at 6am. Nobody has to know how anymore.
Plain automation
Automate the weekly report that only one person knows how to build
A weekly report assembled from four spreadsheets and two emails, by the one person who knows how. It builds itself every Monday at 6am. Nobody has to know how anymore.
In short
A weekly report that one person assembles from several spreadsheets and emails, and everyone waits for. We build a job that pulls the figures, fills your layout, checks the totals and sends it before the week starts. Plain automation, no AI. Usually a quick task, from $2,500, when the sources are clean exports. First deliverable running within 7 days.
- Free evaluation
- Fixed quote before work begins
- First deliverable running in 14 days, guaranteed
- Small tasks welcome
What this costs you today
Monday morning, one person opens four spreadsheets and two emails, copies the figures into a template, checks the totals, and sends it out. Everyone waits for it. If that person is out, the report is late or wrong, because nobody else knows the steps.
The report is the same every week. Only the numbers change. That is the definition of work a machine should do.
Call a fully loaded employee $45,000 a year, as an illustration. In the companies we meet this typically takes 5 to 10 hours a week once you count the checking and the chasing. Ten hours is a quarter of a person.
- 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. Or open these figures in the calculator and change them.
How it works
- 1
Step 1
We watch the report get built once and note each source, each step and each check.
- 2
Step 2
We build the job to pull from those sources, fill your layout and run the same checks.
- 3
Step 3
If a source is missing or a total does not reconcile, the job says so instead of sending.
- 4
Step 4
It sends the finished report to the people who need it, on the schedule you set.
What CBIT builds instead
We build a job that runs before the week starts. It pulls the figures from each source, puts them in your layout, checks the totals the way the person did, and sends the finished report to the people who need it.
If a source is missing or a total does not reconcile, the job says so instead of sending a bad report. The person who used to build it now reads it, and fixes only what the job flagged.
Plain automation handles most repetitive work. We use newer tools only where they clearly earn their place, and we tell you when we do. A weekly report does not need them.
What the team gets back is a Monday-morning report that is already there, and one person who no longer has to be the only one who knows how.
Plain automation or AI?
This is plain automation. No AI. The sources and the layout are known. The report can assemble itself before anyone is in the office.
What business automation actually costsOne 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.
Price band and timeline
- Usually
- Quick tasks
- Band
- From $2,500
- First deliverable running
- Within 7 days
This kind of project
Often a small project
A report built from a few clean exports into a known layout is one of the smaller things we build. It grows when the sources are messy, when figures have to be reconciled before they can be used, or when the report has to look different for different readers.
- 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 deliverable running in 14 days, 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.
All prices and the guaranteeWhat business automation actually costs
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
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.
Questions about this task.
Where can the figures come from?
Spreadsheets in a shared drive, exports from your systems, email attachments, a database, a portal. If a source has a connection or a file export, we use it. If it is a spreadsheet someone maintains by hand, the job reads that too.
What if a number is wrong?
The job runs the checks the person ran: totals that must tie, figures that must be within a range, sources that must be present. If a check fails, it does not send. It tells the person what failed so they fix that one thing.
Can the report look different for different people?
Yes. One set of figures, several layouts: a summary for the owner, detail for the team, a version for a client. Each extra layout adds a little scope; the figures are pulled once.
How is this priced?
A report from a few clean exports into a known layout is a quick task, from $2,500. Messy sources, figures that need reconciling first, or several layouts move it into a single-task automation, $7,500 to $25,000. The quote is fixed after the free evaluation.
How long until it is running?
For a quick task, the first deliverable is running within 7 days: the report built and sent from real sources. The clock starts when we have access to those sources.
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, the first deliverable is running in your operation within 14 days, guaranteed.
Free evaluation. Fixed quote before work begins.
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