Manual data entry costs $28,500 per employee per year. That is not a made-up number. That is what U.S. companies are paying in pure waste. And it is just one slice of a much bigger problem.
80% of AI Projects Fail. Your ROI Calculator Is Probably Wrong.
Five independent research organizations published AI project failure studies in 2025 and 2026. The number is the same everywhere you look: 80 percent. Another 12 percent survive past proof of concept. That leaves eight out of ten automation initiatives as complete disasters.
Why Your ROI Calculator Is a Joke
- Most calculators only count labor hours saved on repeatable tasks.
- They ignore error rates, retry costs, and the time it takes humans to fix bot failures.
- They assume perfect process flows. Real workflows break all the time.
- They treat AI agents like magical black boxes that just work.
The real cost of a bot that fails is not the license fee. It is the person sitting at their desk watching it crash, retraining it, and explaining to their boss why the project is late.
RPA Was Built for 2015. AI Agents Need 2026
RPA was a good idea when screens looked static and processes were linear. Now everything is dynamic. Buttons move. Authentication changes. Interfaces break. RPA bots break with them. AI computer use agents are different. They see the screen. They understand context. They adapt.
The Only ROI Calculator That Matters
You need a calculator that accounts for success rate, retry cost, and the complexity of your workflows. Most vendors hide their failure rates. They show you pretty graphs and tell you automation is a no-brainer. You need to know the dirty truth.
Why Coasty Exists (and Why It Wins)
Not every AI computer use agent is built the same way. Coasty is the #1 computer use agent. Our in-house model hits 85.6 percent on OSWorld with public results. Independently verified results show 82.81 percent on the official OSWorld leaderboard. Competitors are nowhere near that level.
Stop using ROI calculators that assume everything will work perfectly. Start with a computer use agent that actually works. Check out coasty.ai. Get a real calculator. Run the numbers. See what happens when you stop throwing money at broken processes.
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