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Cape Pebble

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What does one transaction cost you?

A transaction is a unit of work: a quote handled, an invoice extracted, a customer question answered. Put today's cost next to tomorrow's automated cost. Nothing is sent, nothing is stored.

  • The calculation runs on your volumes, not on market averages.
  • It counts the setup, the supervision and the human time that remains.
  • It says no when the volume does not pay for the setup.
Start from a common case

The calculation

Today

€11.67

per transaction

Automated

€4.16

per transaction

Monthly saving, amortisation included€2,253
Over twelve months€27,032
Setup paid back in3.1 months

The calculation says yes.

The setup pays for itself in under a year. At that point what decides is no longer cost but the quality of your data and the clarity of your rules. Measure before you build.

This calculation measures money only. It ignores what else an automation brings (response time, errors avoided, drudgery, the ability to absorb a rise in activity) and what else it costs (dependency, change management). It also ignores the perpetual pilot, the most common hidden cost: a project in "adjustments" for eight months, with no measured transaction.

Today

What the work costs in human time, before any automation.

Once automated

What still has to be paid every month: model calls, tooling, monitoring and the human time spent checking. Zero humans does not exist.

The setup

Scoping, integration, testing, training, documentation. It is the main line in year one, and the only one that does not repeat.