The Reporting Cost Calculator

Find out how much time and money manual reports are costing your business — and see what you'd save with AI-powered queries.

⏱️ 2 minutes · Free · Personalized results

1 Your Current Setup

Who builds reports for your business?

Think about who actually writes the queries, builds the spreadsheets, or creates the dashboards.

I do it myself

Founder / Owner

Dedicated analyst

Data / BI team

Developer

Engineering time

External agency

Outsourced

How much time per week goes into reporting?

Include: writing queries, building charts, exporting data, formatting, emailing reports.

5 hrs/wk

2 Your Data Pain Points

How do you get answers from your data?

Spreadsheets

Excel, Sheets, CSV

Write SQL

Direct queries

Ask someone

"Can you pull this?"

Dashboards

Metabase, Tableau

How often do you need a report that doesn't exist yet?

Someone asks a new question that your current dashboards and reports can't answer.

Daily

Every day

Weekly

A few times/week

Monthly

A few times/month

3 Your Team Size

How many people need data access?

People who regularly ask questions or need reports — not your entire company.

1–3

Solo / Small team

4–10

Growing team

11+

Multiple departments

What's the rough hourly cost of the person building reports?

Use loaded cost (salary + overhead), not just hourly rate.

$25/hr

~$50K salary

$50/hr

~$100K salary

$75/hr

~$150K salary

$100+/hr

Senior / Agency

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Your Reporting Cost Report

Annual cost of manual reporting

Hours per week on reports

Hours per year on reports

Hours saved with NL-to-SQL

Annual money saved

📊 Before vs. After

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