Investigation cost calculator

How much is support investigation costing your organization every year?

Three numbers, one minute: the hours and dollars your team spends finding what went wrong.

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500
L1/L2/L3 tickets that need engineering investigation.
2 h
Hours per ticket, from open to root cause found.
$110/h
Salary, benefits and overhead.

Model assumption: BuildWright handles about 80% of investigation at steady state (month 3). A planning estimate. Your baseline should come from sampling your own tickets.

Your investigation tax today

$1,320,000

annual cost of investigation, from 1,000 hours a month

$1,056,000

annual savings with BuildWright

800

investigation hours recovered per month

4.6

engineers freed (FTEs, at 2,080 hours a year)

An estimate, not a quote. Book a 30-minute investigation cost assessment to check these numbers against your real ticket volume. No commitment, no procurement.

Understand your results

What that number covers

What you spend every year before a single fix begins.

Your most experienced engineers dig through logs instead of building, and the customer stays blocked.

63%

of customers switch to a competitor after one bad experience

70%

of every ticket’s resolution time is lost to investigation

Practitioner and industry reports

42%

of engineering time goes to maintenance and debugging

Stripe Developer Coefficient

The solution

Keep your customers unblocked and out of the escalation queue

Every escalation arrives with the investigation done. Simple questions never reach the queue.

95%

less time spent on diagnosis

52%

smaller total ticket volume

70%

of tickets diagnosed independently

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