AI Time Savings Calculator

Pick your tasks and see the hours add up. Ranges are estimates informed by published research; here's how.

Draft a reply saves ~4-6 min each /wk

Write a cold outreach email saves ~5-11 min each /wk

Summarize a long email thread saves ~7-10 min each /wk

Turn bullet points into a polished email saves ~3-7 min each /wk

Write a follow-up sequence (3-5 emails) saves ~10-22 min each /wk

Fix the tone / rewrite a draft saves ~2-4 min each /wk

Write scheduling / coordination messages saves ~2-3 min each /wk

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Estimates shown as a range because real savings vary a lot. Figures are estimates informed by published research and assume AI output needs a quick review and edit, not a full redo. No task has been timed by us yet. Once one has, it will be marked Tested and link to the measurement.

Where these ranges come from

The estimates draw on public research on AI and productivity. A few of the anchor findings:

Writing — professionals completed writing tasks about 40% faster with AI in a controlled study (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023); real-world workplace studies see nearer 25%.
Coding & formulas — developers finished a bounded task 55% faster with an AI assistant (Peng et al., 2023), though complex real-world work sees far less.
Customer support — AI raised agent productivity about 14% on average (Brynjolfsson et al., 2023).
Knowledge work — consultants were ~25% faster with AI (BCG/Dell'Acqua, 2023); real-world surveys land around 2–5 hours saved per week.
Summarizing — the biggest wins, since reading is the bottleneck; AI-assisted catch-up routinely cuts most of the time.

We show ranges rather than single numbers because savings depend heavily on the task, the tool, and how much editing the output needs. As we run our own timed tests, we replace these estimates with measured figures.