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Contents Software ROI Calculator

The cost of contents work is mostly labour, not software. This works out what your current process costs at your own numbers — and what has to be true for automation to pay for itself.

Kevin Godfrey, KevinLast updated 5 October 2026

How do you work out the ROI of contents software?

Compare what the manual work costs at your volume and your hourly rate against the reviewing time plus the subscription — then check how many line items have to be helped before the software covers itself.

Everything below runs on numbers you enter. We have deliberately not built in a time saving of our own: the figure that matters is yours, and a calculator that assumes its own answer is worth nothing to the person most worth convincing.

Your numbers

Line items a month2,000
Hours by hand166.7
Hours reviewing instead33.3
Hours recovered133.3
Labour, by hand$6,667
Labour + software$1,582
Monthly difference$5,084
Break-even94 lines
Software per line$0.12

Every figure here is arithmetic on the numbers above. They are your assumptions, not our claims, and nothing on this page estimates how much faster Kevin will be for you.

Why minutes per line is the number that matters

A single contents line is not hard. At five minutes each — identify it, write the description, research a replacement, check it, record the source, classify it, depreciate it, enter it — a 500-line inventory is about 42 hours. At two minutes it is under 17. Nothing else in the calculation moves the answer as much, which is also why it is the number worth measuring on your own next claim rather than estimating.

Capacity, not payroll

Most firms do not convert recovered hours into a smaller wage bill. They convert them into more losses handled, less research outsourced, faster turnaround and fewer weekends in a spreadsheet. That is a change in what the practice can take on, and for a public adjusting firm it is usually worth more than the labour line.

One piece of context

Kevin was built out of real public-adjuster work rather than from a product spec. In a single month, more than four thousand carrier-facing contents line items were produced through it, with a person confirming the grouping on every one before it became a claim item.

That is a volume, not a rate, and it is deliberately not plugged into the calculator above — your claims are not that claim. The useful test is still to run one real inventory through and time it against what you do now.

Common questions

How much time does contents software save?
Honestly: it depends on your claims, and anyone quoting a single multiplier is guessing on your behalf. It depends on photograph quality, how much of the property is unusual, and how much research you currently do by hand. That is why this page asks for your numbers rather than supplying ours.
Is this calculator a guarantee?
No. It is arithmetic on the assumptions you enter. Change the minutes per line and the answer changes; the honest use of it is to try a conservative case and see whether it still makes sense.
Where does the time actually go on a large claim?
Replacement-cost research first, then organising photographs into items, recording sources, and applying depreciation consistently. Each is a couple of minutes on one item and weeks across a thousand — which is what makes it a workflow problem rather than a difficulty problem.
Is Kevin only worth it on very large claims?
The benefit scales with line count, so it is most obvious on large inventories. The break-even figure above is the useful test: it is how many lines have to be helped before the subscription covers itself at your own rate.
What does Kevin cost?
$249 a month, flat — never per claim and never per seat. Claims are unlimited; line items are the metered dimension, with 2,000 included each month. The first 250 line items are free with no deadline. The pricing page is the authoritative source.
Does the saving come out of payroll?
For most firms, no — and that is the more interesting case. Recovered hours usually turn into capacity: more losses handled, less research outsourced, faster turnaround. That is a change in what the practice can take on rather than a smaller wage bill.

Build contents claims faster with Kevin.

Your first 250 line items are free, with no clock running. $249/mo after that, unlimited claims.

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