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What is manual operations actually costing you?

Most stores don't lose money on ads — they lose it in the seams: the hours spent every week on work that a system should be doing. Move the sliders to see the hours and dollars you'd reclaim, and how fast a fixed-scope build pays for itself.

Manual, repetitive ops hours / week 12 hrs

You and your team combined — fulfillment exports, refund triage, inventory chasing, reporting, copy-paste between tools.

Blended cost of that time / hour $25

Loaded hourly cost of whoever does this work — a VA is ~$8–15, a manager ~$25–40, your own time far more.

Share that can be automated 60%

Conservative default. In practice, most repetitive ops work sits between 50–75% automatable once the systems layer is in place.

These are directional estimates from your inputs — not a quote. The Store Systems Audit replaces the guesswork with a real number for your store.

$0 reclaimable cost of manual ops / year

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$0total spent on manual ops / yr

$0reclaimable over 3 years

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payback on a one-time $1,500 AI Operations Setup

Start with an audit — $497 → See the setup

How this is calculated: reclaimable cost = weekly hours × 52 × hourly cost × automatable share. Payback compares the reclaimable monthly value against a one-time $1,500 build. It counts only time reclaimed — not the additional revenue that usually follows from fewer errors, faster fulfillment, and lifecycle flows that actually run.