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How much is poor information access costing your team?

Most manufacturers do not measure how much time their sales team and applications engineers lose looking for prior orders, quotes, parts, and product information. The number is usually worse than they expect.

Based on data from 200+ manufacturer interviews

Cost of Search Calculator

6 quick questions. Your results are instant and free.

How many employees regularly search for technical information?

Engineers, salespeople, service techs, production staff. Anyone who looks things up.

How often do they search, and how long does it take?

Include looking things up in ERP, shared drives, email, manuals, and drawings.

min
From "I need X" to actually having the answer
%
First-try success rate

Last step. The human cost of bad search.

When people can't find what they need, they interrupt someone who can.

hrs/wk
Across your whole team. "Hey, do you know where..." or "Can you check if..."
People everyone goes to. If they left, knowledge leaves with them.
The hidden cost of searching
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Your results will appear here.

-- Direct search time cost
-- Failed search waste
-- Interruption cost
Knowledge risk
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Blended hourly rate $45/hr
Interruption multiplier 2.5x direct time
Each interruption costs ~2.5x the direct time due to context switching. Based on UC Irvine research on workplace interruptions.
Knowledge holder replacement cost 1.5x salary ($95K avg)
Working days per year 250

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