Part of your payroll pays every month for re-entry, manual checks and reports rebuilt by hand. That cost can be measured, and it can be reallocated. Here is how to size it, then hand those hours back to work that creates value.
30%
of paid time reallocatable to higher-value work, according to McKinsey
705 h
per year for a single 5-hour weekly task shared by 3 people
100%
of automation costs metered, capped and billed at real cost
5 h
per week, per person, on the task
× 3
people involved in the team
× 47
working weeks per year
= 705 h
of payroll per year, on a single task
Run the numbers with your own figures: it's often the equivalent of a half-time position, locked into a task that requires no judgement.
Talking about payroll and automation often raises the worst fears. That's a misreading: the problem isn't the headcount, it's what those hours buy. An hour of a quality expert spent copying values costs the price of expertise and produces the output of data entry.
Automating repetitive tasks hands those hours back to analysis, client relationships and decisions. Headcount stays the same; the value produced by the same payroll goes up. And the cost of automation is measured: every AI call goes through the Token Gateway.
Copying the same data from one file or system into another.
Re-reading documents line by line for consistency and compliance.
Rebuilding the same tracking tables every week.
Qualifying, routing and chasing, email after email.
Gathering data scattered across teams and formats.
Fixing the typos that fatigue let slip through.
A leadership exercise more than a technical one: measure first, automate second.
List each team's recurring tasks and who carries them.
Hours per week × people × loaded hourly cost: the number speaks for itself.
Start with tasks that are frequent, documented and free of complex judgement.
ERHA builds the pipeline and runs it in your dedicated space.
Hours handed back on one side, real run costs on the other.
That's not the goal. Automation changes what your paid hours produce: less typing, more analysis and client work. Payroll stays; the value it produces goes up.
Hours per week × number of people × loaded hourly cost × working weeks. A 5-hour weekly task carried by 3 people passes 700 hours a year. Your own figures are enough, no audit required.
Every AI call is metered, capped and billed at real cost through the Token Gateway. You compare the exact cost of each run against the hours it replaces, from the first week.
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