# Carbon Gear Automations ROI calculator

An interactive estimator on the Carbon Gear Automations site that shows an
owner-operated trades contractor what the gaps in their week are costing:
hours a year handed back, dollars recoverable, and new reviews earned. It asks
for five numbers a shop already knows and models no price at all. It is an
estimate built from stated assumptions, not a quote and not a guarantee.

## What it asks for

Three inputs are shown by default:

- Calls that go unanswered in a normal week (starting value 6).
- Jobs completed in a normal week (starting value 12).
- What an average job is worth (starting value $450).

Two more sit behind a "Refine this" disclosure, and both carry a starting value
so the figures are populated whether or not it is opened:

- Appointments that no-show or reschedule in a month (starting value 3).
- Hours a week spent chasing estimates, reminders and invoices (starting
  value 8).

There is one input per system the company builds, plus average job value, which
every dollar figure runs through.

## The arithmetic

  recoveredCalls = calls per week x average job value x 52 x 0.5
  newReviews     = jobs per week x 52 x 0.25
  savedSlots     = no-shows per month x 12 x 0.5
  recoveredSlots = savedSlots x average job value
  hoursBack      = admin hours per week x 52 x 0.5

  dollarsBack    = recoveredCalls + recoveredSlots

Hours and dollars are reported side by side and never added together. Combining
them would require an hourly rate, which is the kind of figure an owner-operator
does not carry in their head.

At the starting values the page shows 208 hours a year handed back, $78,300
recoverable, and 156 new reviews.

## The assumptions, stated on the page

The rates above are assumptions the company picked to stay conservative, and
each is written on the page next to the figure rather than hidden in code. The
page states: half the missed calls are won back, half the appointments that
would have slipped are saved, half the hours spent chasing paperwork are handed
back, and one in four customers asked for a review leaves one.

## What it will not tell you

The page says so directly. It will not tell you what Carbon Gear charges — no
price is modelled anywhere, because a build has not been scoped. It will not
tell you whether these gaps are a given shop's real problem; the company says it
will tell a shop when they are not. And it will not tell you what a specific
shop will recover: every number rests on an assumption, and every assumption is
written on the page.

## Taking the numbers to the audit

Both calls to action on the page read "Take these numbers to the audit" and lead
to the free operations audit form. The figures travel with the visitor and are
written into the message box on that form, where they can be read, edited or
deleted like any other text. Whatever is in that box when the form is sent is
what Carbon Gear receives; delete it and nothing from the calculator is sent.
The calculator itself runs entirely in the visitor's browser and sends nothing
anywhere while it is being used.

## Related

- The homepage carries a shorter two-input version of the same estimate. The
  missed-call figure on this page reduces exactly to it.
- What we build: https://www.carbongearautomations.com/what-we-build
- Free operations audit: https://www.carbongearautomations.com/contact