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Your Team
Used to calculate the fully-loaded labor cost of your manual workflows.
Traffic, billing, production, admin roles
$
Salary + benefits + overhead, typically 1.25 to 1.4x base pay
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Traffic Operations
Manual tasks your traffic team handles every week: order entry, copy coordination, scheduling.
Manual traffic order entry
Re-entering orders from email, fax, or portals into your traffic system
High Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Chasing missing copy & assets
Emails, calls, and follow-ups to obtain missing creative from clients or agencies
High Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Scheduling conflict resolution
Manually identifying and fixing preemptions, conflicts, or make-goods
Medium Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Traffic Ops total $0 / yr
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Billing & Finance
Manual work in invoice creation, reconciliation, affidavits, and payment follow-up.
Manual invoice creation
Building or reviewing invoices by hand, cross-referencing traffic logs and orders
High Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Affidavit & proof-of-performance production
Manually generating, formatting, and sending affidavits to clients
High Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Payment follow-up & reconciliation
Chasing late payments, reconciling discrepancies, matching payments to invoices
Medium Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Billing & Finance total $0 / yr
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Production & Approvals
Status updates, client approval loops, and operational reporting that eat into your team's day.
Production status updates
Manually communicating production status to clients, account reps, or internal teams
Medium Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Client approval chains
Emailing copy, waiting for replies, re-sending, tracking down sign-offs manually
High Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Manual reporting & analytics
Building reports by hand: revenue reports, activity summaries, ops dashboards
Lower Impact
ppl
hrs
$0/yr
Production & Approvals total $0 / yr
WORKFLOW COST REPORT

Here is what your team's manual workflows are costing you.

Based on the numbers you entered, here is your full task-by-task cost breakdown and what is recoverable.

Annual Workflow Waste
In recoverable labor cost
Hours Lost / Week
Across your ops team
FTE Equivalent
Full-time employee(s) worth of manual work
Recoverable w/ vCreative
Estimated savings in year 1
Cost by Category
Traffic Operations
Billing & Finance
Production & Approvals
Your 3 Biggest Opportunities
How vCreative Helps

What 90 Days Looks Like

From signed contract to full automation, faster than you think.

1
Week 1-2
Onboarding & configuration
Data migration, integrations mapped, your team trained on the platform.
2
Week 3-4
First automations go live
Traffic order flow, client portal, and billing automation activated. Your team stops re-entering data.
3
Month 2
Full traffic & billing running
Invoices self-generate, affidavits auto-produce, approval chains move through the client portal.
4
Month 3
Team hours fully recovered
You start seeing the hours come back. Staff redirect time to strategy, client relationships, and revenue growth.

Ready to stop paying the manual workflow tax?

The numbers above represent recoverable cost: labor your team spends doing work that software should handle automatically. The first step is a 30-minute demo where we walk through exactly how vCreative addresses your specific workflows.

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