What is the phone costing you?
A free AI automation savings calculator for businesses with fewer than 10 employees. Put in a normal week. It shows the hours a tool could take off your plate and whether that would pay for the tool. Sometimes the answer is no, and it will say so.
Everything that needs an answer: calls, texts, web forms, direct messages.
Picking up, answering, writing it down, calling back.
People who asked and have not said yes or no.
Finding the number, the text, the second text.
What you would pay someone to do it, or what you bill when you are not doing it.
Your assumption, not a promise. Start low. Hard questions and upset customers should still reach you.
Modeled estimate
2.3 hours a week
out of 5.7 you spend now, or about 118 hours a year.
$2,947 a year
what those hours are worth at your rate.
For comparison, our Kairos widget on the Core plan costs $1,763 in the first year: from $575 to build, plus $99 a month. It handles chat and booking on your website, so only count the questions that could arrive that way.
On these numbers the time would be worth about $1,184 more than that first-year cost. Check the numbers against a real week before you believe them.
An estimate from your inputs. It is not a quote or a guarantee of savings, and nothing you enter here is sent or saved.
Before you trust the number
Most owners guess low on calls and high on how much of it a machine can do. Keep a tally on a sheet of paper for one week: every call, every text, every form, and how long each took. Then come back and use the real figures. A week of tally marks beats any benchmark, including the ones sold to you.
Saved hours only count if they go somewhere. If the time turns into another paid job, or dinner with your family, the value is real. If it turns into more time on the phone with a different vendor, it is not. Automation also takes setup, and someone has to read what it did on Friday afternoon. For a one-person business, that someone is you.
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Frequently asked
It multiplies your weekly calls by the minutes each one takes, adds your follow-ups the same way, and takes the share you say a tool could handle. That is the hours figure. It then multiplies by your hourly value across 52 weeks. There is no data from any other business in it, so the answer is only as honest as what you enter.
Start at 20% or 30% and raise it only with evidence. Hours, directions, prices you already publish and booking are the easy part. Estimates on an unusual job, complaints and anything that needs judgment should still reach you. Spend a week counting which questions repeat, and let that count set the slider.
Use the higher of two numbers: what you would pay someone to do the work, or what you bill when you are not doing it. If an hour off the phone would not turn into paid work or an evening at home, the honest value of that hour is lower, and the calculator should say so.
Because it is our product and its price is published, so you can check the math: Kairos starts from $575 to build, then $99, $199 or $349 a month by conversations, and the calculator picks the plan from the volume you enter. Kairos handles chat and booking on your website, so it is a fair yardstick for the questions that arrive there. The comparison also tells you when not to buy. If your numbers fall short, the page says so.
No. It only counts your time. A missed call that was a real job costs more than the minutes, but that figure depends on your close rate and job size, and we would rather not guess at it. If you know those numbers, add them to the result yourself.
No. The calculator runs in your browser and sends nothing. We only hear from you if you fill out the form below it.