The cost of keying documents by hand.

Three inputs, thirty seconds, your number. Every benchmark on this page links to its source.

Documents handled per week 150

Invoices, forms, statements, contracts — anything a person reads and retypes.

Minutes per document 6

Your estimate — reading, keying, checking, filing. No industry default exists that survives scrutiny, so this stays yours to set.

Hourly cost of whoever does it 20

UK median hourly earnings: £19.67 (ONS, April 2025). EU average labour cost: €34.9/hr (Eurostat, 2025). Adjust to your real payroll cost.

£15,600

a year of paid time spent retyping documents

Best-in-class automated invoice processing costs 79% less than average (Ardent Partners, 2025). On your inputs that is £12,324 a year on the table.

30 minutes · you keep the costed workflow map whether or not we build · runs on your infrastructure, GDPR by architecture

The benchmarks behind the math

$9.84 — average cost to process a single invoice manually. Ardent Partners, State of ePayables 2025
18.4% — average share of invoices that trip an exception someone has to chase. Same source.
8.2 days — average invoice cycle time. Same source.
1–4% — error rate of single-keyed manual data entry. Panko, University of Hawaii — spreadsheet-error research
46% — of software licences underutilized or unused in large organizations. Zylo, 2026 SaaS Management Index

Make the number precise.

A 30-minute walkthrough maps your actual document workflows and costs each one — what to automate first, what it replaces, what to leave alone. You keep the workflow map either way.

No deck, no obligation — the workflow map is yours either way. Verified extraction, on your own servers, GDPR by architecture.