Manual work isn’t just inefficient—it’s invisibly expensive. While many businesses focus on revenue growth and digital transformation, they often overlook the growing drain caused by outdated, labor-heavy processes. This guide shines a light on the hidden financial, operational, and compliance costs of sticking with legacy workflows.

Based on insights from PwC, EY, and real enterprise data, this report identifies the critical areas where manual work is costing organizations the most—without being explicitly tracked.

What you’ll learn:

• Operating Margin Impact: Manual work accounts for 30–50% of preventable OPEX in large enterprises

• Time-to-Decision Lag: Legacy workflows slow market responsiveness and decision-making

• Compliance Burden: 60% of audit failures are linked to undocumented manual processes

• Opportunity Cost: Revenue delays, lost sales, and customer churn due to slow processing

• Examples of risk: Untracked approvals, manual data entry errors, missed regulatory filings

Automation potential by function:

• Invoice Processing: From $4–6 per invoice to $1–2 with 90% fewer errors

• Onboarding: Cut 15–20 manual steps across departments by 70–80%

• IT Tickets: AI resolves 60% of Tier 1 issues

• Sales Quotes: Instant quote generation replacing email chains

Outcomes when automation is implemented:

• 40% reduction in process overhead

• $4M+ annual savings

• 5x faster processing

• Up to 80% less audit prep time

• 70–90% reduction in compliance risk

This report provides not just insights—but urgency. Every day without automation increases exposure to financial leakage, stalled growth, and competitive decline.

If it’s still manual, it’s silently costing you.
Download the full report to uncover the hidden burden of legacy workflows—and learn how automation can turn inefficiency into measurable impact.