ROI calculator

What is search time actually costing you?

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Model your own numbers

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Knowledge workers who search documents

People whose work involves finding information in internal documents.

250 people

Hours per person per week spent searching

Industry studies commonly put this between 3 and 8 hours. Use your own figure if you have one.

4 hours

Fully loaded cost per person per year (£)

Salary plus employer costs. Used only to value time.

Realistic share of that time recovered

Be conservative. Nobody recovers all of it, and we would rather you tested a number you can defend.

25%

Document estate size (TB)

Drives which plan applies. Above 50 TB is a private negotiated offer.

10 TB

Estimated annual position

£—

recovered time value, net of licence cost

Hours spent searching each year—

Cost of that time—

Time value recovered—

Plan—

Indicative licence cost—

Return on licence cost—

Estimates only, for framing a business case. Recovered time is a modelling assumption, not a guarantee, and time saved becomes value only where it is redeployed to useful work. Licence figures use published list pricing converted at an indicative 0.79 GBP to the US dollar; your price depends on your marketplace transaction or negotiated agreement. Estates above 50 TB are private offers where the rate steps down with committed capacity, so the figure shown for those is a ceiling rather than a quote.

The number that actually settles a business case is not this one. It is a proof-of-concept on your own documents, where you can measure the difference on real questions your staff are asking today. Try it on your data.

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