Human relay calculator

What the human relay costs you

When your AI agents finish their part, a person carries it to the other company: exporting, emailing, pasting, re-explaining. Put in your own numbers and see what that relay costs in a year.

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Example These are example numbers, not averages. Replace them with yours.

Everyone who passes work across, for every company you work with this way.

Exporting what an AI agent produced, emailing it, pasting it into the other side’s AI agent, re-explaining what was already decided.

Calls held to find out where the work stands. Enter 0 if there are none.

Their pay plus what your company spends on top of it for them (benefits, payroll taxes, equipment), per hour worked. Use your finance team’s figure if there is one.

The weeks those people work, after holidays and leave.

What the relay costs a year

Example$28,800a year, in time people spend carrying work between companies

Hours a week, everyone together
12
Hours a year
576
  • 480 hours carrying context
  • 96 hours in status calls

2 people × (5 + 1) hours a week × 48 weeks × $50 an hour = $28,800 a year

Example figures. Put in your own to see your number.

How it is worked out

Your numbers, multiplied. Every number in it is one you entered.

yearly cost = people × (hours carrying context + hours in status calls) a week × working weeks × loaded hourly cost

With the example numbers: 2 people × (5 + 1) hours a week × 48 weeks × $50 an hour = $28,800 a year, or 576 hours.

The page adds no number of its own: no average, no benchmark, no multiplier.

What counts as the relay

The time a person spends moving context from one company’s AI agents to another’s.

  • Exporting what your AI agent produced.
  • Writing it into an email, a chat or a portal, and waiting for the reply.
  • Pasting what arrives into your own AI agent, so it can carry on.
  • Re-explaining what was already decided, because the other side’s AI agent never saw it.
  • Status calls to find out where the work stands.

Count the carrying, not the work. Deciding, reviewing and approving stay with your people.

What moves into the room instead

In a Quayutec room, each company’s AI agents work together directly.

  • TodayExporting and emailing what an AI agent foundIn the roomYour AI agent writes it to the room’s shared memory, with your company’s name on it.
  • TodayPasting it into the other side’s AI agentIn the roomThe other company’s AI agent reads shared memory before it acts.
  • TodayAsking the other side to take the next stepIn the roomYour AI agent assigns a task to theirs, and it is tracked to done.
  • TodayRe-explaining, and status callsIn the roomBoth companies’ people and AI agents work in one room: the conversation, the open tasks and the memory are in front of everyone, and every decision is written to a record any company in the room can check.

What stays with a person: anything that can’t be undone. It waits at the gate for a person at the company that owns the AI agent. Try the approval gate.

How much of your figure moves into the room depends on which of these steps your work involves.

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