Digital does not mean automated.
The request comes in. The rest just happens.
No lists to maintain. No data to retype. Nobody has to remember the next step.
With Lens · takes about 3 minutes
Potential savings per year
69,920.00 €
1,840 hours · 230 workdays
30Minutes per case
80Cases per week
46Working weeks per year
Time nobody sees
Recurring manual work costs hours every week without ever showing up as its own task.
Errors between systems
Data does not have to be right twice if it is only entered once.
A flow, not a reminder
The next step happens without anyone having to think of it.
How you spot manual work that should not be there
Typical situations
What matters is not how many steps are digital. It is how much work between them still depends on people.
How automated is your process, really?
Manual
A request arrives by phone, email or a note. Who takes it, who builds the quote and who follows up lives in people's heads, not in the flow. If one person is missing, the case stops.
- Depends on people
- Hard to scale
- Little visibility
With Lens · takes about 3 minutes
The highest degree of automation is not automatically the best.
What matters is which degree is commercially sound, reliable, and right for this specific flow.
How O/S looks at processes
Remove
First we take out whatever makes the flow more complicated than it needs to be.
Simplify
Then the process gets clearer, until it is worth connecting.
Connect
Systems and data work together. Nobody transfers anything by hand any more.
Automate
Recurring steps run on clear rules, without someone starting them.
Der Ablauf zuerst
We do not start with a tool. We start with the flow.
Automate a process that is more complicated than it needs to be, and you mostly make the complication faster.
What changeswhen work is automated
0 %
Recurring tasks can be automated.
A large share of activities in many roles is technically automatable.
0,0 Std.
More time for the work that matters.
Knowledge workers could reclaim roughly this much time per week through better processes.
0–60 %
Cases move faster.
In reviewed applications, cycle times dropped markedly.
0 %
Less work about the work.
This much knowledge-work time goes to coordination instead of core expertise.
Calculate the saving
- 30 minutes of manual work per recurring case
- 16 cases a day, across five working days, comes to 80 a week
- 30 minutes × 80 cases × 46 weeks comes to about 1,840 hours of manual work a year.
30Minutes per case
80Cases per week
46Working weeks per year
- ≈ 230 workdaysat 8 hours per workday
- ≈ 46.0 work weeksat 5 workdays per week
1,840 hours · 230 workdays
This manual work costs, per year
69,920.00 €
This is a worked example. The real benefit depends on the specific process. The calculation refers to the 5th stage of automation.
How much of that could reasonably be avoided?
Lens helps you place your flow in about 3 minutes.
Common questions
- Do we need new software for this?
- Can a single flow be automated on its own?
- When is a custom solution worth it?
- Does automation always need AI?
- How do we find which processes are suitable?
- What does automation cost?
Not necessarily. A lot can often be gained by connecting the systems you already have, or by using them differently. New software makes sense only when it actually creates extra value.
CONTACT
Which flow is costing you time it should not?
Tell us briefly what still runs by hand, twice, or in a way that is more complicated than it needs to be. We will look at it with you and work out which next step makes sense.