What do you pay every month just to make your own systems talk to each other?

Almost nobody knows — it's spread across four or five subscriptions and shows up in the accounts as "sundry software". Five minutes gets you that number, and what the manual work between those systems costs on top.

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1 · What do you pay to connect things?

Monthly, roughly. Leave anything at zero if it doesn't apply. Don't include your webshop, accounts package, CRM or payroll themselves — those do a real job and nothing here replaces them.

Automation platformZapier, Make, Power Automate premium Integration add-onsthe "connector" tier on your CRM or webshop Sync appswebshop → accounts, stock sync, order export Point-solution toolsalerts, form builders, PDF generators, dashboards Per-seat AI add-onstotal across everyone who has one Someone external who maintains itcontractor or agency retainer

2 · What does your team do over and over?

Hours per week, across everyone who does it. The honest ones are usually Monday mornings and month-ends.

Rebuilding the same report or summaryfrom two or more systems Retyping the same repliesenquiries, quotes, status updates Copying data between systems by hand Assembling the same document or packpacks, tenders, onboarding Chasing status — where is it, has it shipped, was it paid Average cost per hour of the people doing it salary plus NI, pension and overhead — £22–£35 is typical for office roles

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What that means

How we worked it out

Subscriptions are annualised as entered. Manual work is hours per week × 52 × your hourly figure. We assume 50–70% of connective spend is realistically recoverable over the first twelve to eighteen months — not all of it, because working automations should keep working and some things are genuinely better bought than built. We assume 40–60% of the manual hours can be released, because some of what looks repetitive turns out to need judgement. Both ranges are deliberately conservative; you can read the full method alongside our published prices.

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We'll go through it properly, tell you which parts we think are real, and say so if we don't think it pays back for you.

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Why this is the first thing we'd do anyway

Two things turn up nearly every time: a subscription that has never actually run, and a load-bearing automation on somebody's personal login. Neither needs us to find. Both are worth finding.

What we'd do about it: the connections move into a cloud environment your business owns, set up once. From then on the next thing someone needs gets built on connections that already exist — by describing it, rather than by buying another tool. What's underneath →