We are not going to give you a percentage. Not because we are being cagey, but because any number we published would be invented, and you would have no way of checking it. What we can do is give you the arithmetic, so you can produce a figure from your own business and then hold any quote you receive, including ours, against it.
Why nobody can answer this in the abstract
A savings figure depends on things nobody knows until they look: how many jobs you run, how long your invoices currently lag, whether your pricing history is usable, who does your books and what their time is worth, and how many bids you never send. Two roofing companies of the same size can have completely different answers.
When you see a specific percentage in an ad, it is either from one unusually good case study or it was made up. Ask which. The answer tells you a lot about who you are talking to.
The money sits in three places
1. Hours you get back
This is the easiest to calculate and, for most shops, the smallest of the three.
Take one task. Estimate how long it takes each time, and how often it happens. Multiply. That gives you hours per month. Then multiply by what an hour of that person’s time is genuinely worth, which for an owner is not their salary divided by 2,080. It is what they would otherwise be doing with the hour, which is usually selling work or being on site.
hours saved per month = (minutes per task ÷ 60) × times per month
value per month = hours saved × what that hour is really worth
Two honest adjustments before you trust that number. Automation rarely takes a task to zero, because someone still reviews output, so apply a haircut. And an hour saved is only worth something if it gets used for something better. An hour that turns into an hour of admin somewhere else has not earned you anything.
2. Cash arriving sooner
This is usually bigger than the hours, and almost nobody calculates it.
If your invoices go out a week after work finishes, and they start going out the same day, you have pulled roughly seven days out of your cash cycle across every invoice. That is not new revenue. It is the same money arriving sooner, permanently, which changes what you can do without a line of credit.
cash pulled forward = average daily invoiced amount × days of lag removed
Work out your average daily invoiced amount by taking a normal month and dividing by working days. If invoices currently lag by a week, the days removed is what you are testing. This is the calculation that makes invoicing the most common first project we build.
The caveat: this improves timing, not whether customers pay. If you have collection problems, faster invoicing surfaces them sooner but does not fix them.
3. Work you never bid
The largest number and the hardest to defend, so treat it carefully.
If you are the only person who can price work, some jobs never get quoted. Not lost on price. Never bid at all, because the week ran out. Most owners have a rough sense of how many, and it is usually higher than they would like to admit.
value = jobs not bid per month × average job value × your realistic win rate
Be conservative on win rate. If you win one in three of the bids you do send, do not assume you would win the ones you never sent at a better rate. This is where estimating earns its keep, and it is also where the temptation to inflate is strongest, so use a number you would defend to your accountant.
The other half: what it costs
A savings figure means nothing on its own. Set it against the build cost, any ongoing tool costs, and the time your crew spends learning it.
That last one is real and routinely ignored. A system nobody adopts has a return of zero regardless of how good the arithmetic looked. When we quote work, training is part of it rather than an add-on, because the alternative is selling you something that does not get used.
We do not publish prices for the same reason we do not publish savings percentages. Wiring one trigger into tools you already own is a genuinely different project from connecting estimating, proposals, and job costing into one flow. The free thirty-minute call is where that gets scoped, and you leave with a real number.
What we will tell you honestly
Once we have looked at your business, we will tell you which task is costing you most and roughly what fixing it would take. Sometimes the arithmetic does not justify the work yet. That happens most often with job costing, where the real first project turns out to be capturing labour and material costs against jobs properly, before any automation is worth building on top.
If that is your situation, we would rather say so on a free call than halfway through a paid build.
Run the three calculations above with your own figures first. Then book a call and we will go through them with you. If our number and your number disagree, that is a useful conversation either way.