Research-time calculator
What is manual research costing you?
An editable research-time calculator. Enter people, tasks per week, minutes per task, hourly cost and the share of work an agent can accelerate to estimate hours and value recovered. Every assumption is yours; nothing is guaranteed.
Estimated outcome
- Monthly research hours today
- 162
- Hours potentially recovered per month
- 97
- Annual capacity recovered
- 1,169 h
- about 0.7 full-time equivalents
- Estimated productivity value per year
- £52,609
This is an estimate computed only from the assumptions you enter, using 4.33 weeks per month and 1,650 working hours per full-time equivalent. It does not include DataGardener MCP costs and is not a guarantee of savings. Validate the acceleration share with a pilot before relying on it.
How to use it
Start with one team and one recurring task type, such as supplier checks or borrower briefs. Use real timings from a week of work rather than averages from memory.
What the agent changes
The gathering and cross-referencing. People keep the judgement, the relationship and the sign-off. Set the acceleration share accordingly.
Validate with a pilot
A short design-partner pilot measures the acceleration share on your own questions. The calculator is a planning aid, not a promise.
Test the assumption on your own questions.
A pilot measures the acceleration share for real.