₹1.2L/month total.
Three salaries.
Three sets of leaves, sick days, ramp time, training overhead.
Their entire job: read incoming message, respond with template, log to spreadsheet, escalate qualified ones to sales.
We replaced the entire function with one AI agent in 4 days. ₹40k one-time + ₹15k/month.
Same throughput. Better consistency. No leaves.
Three months later he told me the most surprising thing wasn't the cost savings.
It was that he hadn't realized how much of his own attention those three roles had been consuming.
The hiring conversations.
The performance reviews.
The replacement when someone quit.
The real cost wasn't the salaries. I
t was that running a 3-person team was taking up the bandwidth he should have been spending on strategy.
Sometimes the leverage isn't in cost.
It's in attention reclaimed.