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Labour Cost Agent

Workforce cost questions take a week and three teams. The agent answers them in one pass, with the assumptions shown.

A light structure in repeating fields
Planning and cost

Trigger

Budget cycle, or an ad-hoc scenario question

Inputs

  • Cost per FTE by role
  • Contractor rates
  • Overtime and absence
  • Planned volume

Outputs

  • Cost baseline
  • Scenario comparison
  • Savings with confidence range

Control

Human approves

Tier 2

Aggregated pay data only. Access follows your finance permissions.

Interactive sketch

Deterministic, no live model
  1. 1

    Build the baseline

    Assembles current cost per role, including overtime and absence.

  2. 2

    Model the shift

    Replaces contractor hours with permanent capacity on your ramp curve.

  3. 3

    Price the transition

    Adds hiring, training and overlap cost before the saving starts.

  4. 4

    Show the range

    Reports a range, not one number, with the drivers behind it.

Reads aggregated pay data only. No individual salary is exposed in any output.

Recorded run

Scrub through a recorded run.

Deterministic replay
Step 1 / 4

Active step

Build the baseline

Assembles current cost per role, including overtime and absence.

12 months · 9 cost lines

Sources

  • Cost per FTE model
  • Contractor invoices
  • Time and absence data

Guardrail

Reads aggregated pay data only. No individual salary is exposed in any output.

Next step

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