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Robotics deployment as a service

The shifts you can't fill, covered.

Aimed at the seats that keep going open. You describe the work. You get the machine that fits it, run for one hourly rate.

Check if your task is a fit Book a call Run your numbers
What changes first

Your shift gets covered in week one.

Two weeks of the same job. Staffed by people, versus covered every day.

Staffed by peopleCovered every dayMTWTFSSMTWTFSSWEEK 1WEEK 2called outOTno-showquitseat open
An illustration of the pattern, not data from a customer site.
0people to hire
1rate, one invoice
+productive hours, not headcount
Book a call Fifteen minutes about the shift you cannot keep filled.
Task fit assessment

Describe the work. Get an honest verdict.

Nine questions, about a minute. It tells you no when your job is not ready, which happens often. Better you find that out here than after something fails on your floor.

It also tells you no when the seat is not the problem. If a role is filled and stable, a machine is not the answer, and you will read that here.

Question 1 of 9
Fizzion AI, labor investment comparison
Prepared from figures entered by the reader. Every input is editable and every default is a placeholder, not a quote. tim@fizzion.ai
Investment calculator

Put your own numbers in it.

One bundled rate against what the role costs you today. Every field is editable, every starting value a default rather than a quote. The arithmetic is at the bottom so you can argue with it.

What the role costs you now editable defaults
The actual hourly rate you pay, before any burden.
Advertising, screening, and the interview hours your managers give up. SHRM puts the average cost per hire near $4,700, and reckons 60% of it is the time your own people spend hiring rather than cash out the door.*
What this seat costs you goes up every year too. BLS puts the last twelve months at 3.2% for production, transport and material moving work, 3.4% for service work and 3.5% across trade, transport and utilities.† Put your own in.
How many times you refill this seat in twelve months.
Payroll tax, comp, benefits, time off. Varies by state. Check yours.
Length of one shift on this task.
Raise it for more than one shift, or more than one site on the machine.
Paid at time and a half when someone did not show.
What you would pay instead
Standard. A small set of items, mostly repetitive, one area of the floor. The rate covers the machine, the labor, training on your floor, service and uptime.
Set by the complexity above: $1,000 simple, $1,500 standard, $2,000 involved, $2,500 complex. Configuring the machine for your station, or for the route it travels. Charged once, before the first shift. Nothing else is added later.
Your monthly cost is adjusted once a year in line with CPI, and by no less than 3%.† The wage side of the calculator has its own increase, and the 60 month projection escalates both rather than freezing one of them.
Part of your hourly rate pays down the hardware. Once it is paid off you own it outright and the rate drops, while the same service keeps running it. How far it drops depends on the machine your work needs. Useful later, not the reason to start.
Covered hours a month243
What the role costs you now, per covered hour$0
Your bundled rate†$0
One-time setup, before the first shift$0
Your rate once the hardware is paid off$0

Cumulative outlay over 60 months†

Both paths, same covered hours.
Staying with people Your bundled rate, then paid-off rate (dashed) What you keep

What you keep, running total

The gap above, on its own scale.
Book a call Bring the numbers you just entered and we will run them against your actual floor.
* Cost to fill defaults to $4,700, the average cost per hire reported in SHRM's benchmarking, which counts recruiting cost and the hiring time of the people involved. It does not count the shifts that go uncovered while the seat is open, because the overtime field above already prices those. Broader studies put total turnover cost far higher, from 20% of annual pay for roles in this range up to half a year's pay or more. Your own figure belongs in the field. Every number here is a starting estimate, not a quote.
† Your monthly cost is adjusted annually in line with the Consumer Price Index and by no less than 3% a year, so the 60 month projection escalates it at that 3% floor. A year where CPI runs higher adjusts by more. The wage side escalates at whatever you put in the annual wage increase field, which starts at 3.2%. That is the twelve month change to June 2026 in total compensation for production, transportation and material moving work in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Cost Index. Service work ran 3.4% and trade, transport and utilities 3.5% over the same period, so the starting figure is the low end for this kind of work. Total compensation rather than wages alone, because it counts benefits, which rose faster than wages. The hourly rates above are today's figures and carry no escalation. Escalation rates are assumptions, not forecasts, and the adjustment set out in your agreement governs.
Show the math
How the machine gets picked

The selection is the work.

Anyone can put a robot on a floor. Knowing which one, and knowing when the answer is none of them, is what you are actually paying for.

1

Watch the task, not the job title

Timed motion by motion. What gets picked up, from where, how often, how heavy, how varied. A job title says nothing.

2

Find what breaks it

Bags, wet parts, high mix, tight placement, stairs. Whatever would make a machine fail on your floor gets found first. If it is fatal, you hear that and it stops.

3

Match the class, then the supplier

Fixed arm, two-armed station, something mobile, or transport with no gripping at all. Only then, whichever manufacturer builds the best version of it. Nothing here is built in-house, so there is no catalog to steer you into.

4

Prove it on your floor

On your site, on your product, in your lighting, with your people walking past. A supplier demo proves nothing about your building.

Book a call Step one is a conversation about the work. This is that conversation.
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How it lands on your books

It stays on the labor line.

The hourly rate is an operating expense, deducted* in the year you pay it, exactly like the wages, overtime and agency hours it replaces. Nothing to capitalize, nothing to put on the balance sheet.

PAY A RATEoperating expense, like the wages and overtime it replacesYr 1Yr 2Yr 3Yr 4Yr 5Yr 6Yr 7BUY THE MACHINE OUTRIGHTcapital purchase, written off a slice at a timeYr 1Yr 2Yr 3Yr 4Yr 5Yr 6Yr 7
What each bar shows is when the deduction lands, not an amount. Heights are relative, not dollars.

Buying a machine outright is the other path. The cash leaves in year one and the write-off comes back a slice at a time over roughly seven years. Paying a rate keeps the deduction in step with the money going out, which is how your labor line already behaves.

Book a call Bring your accountant. The terms are easier to check out loud.
* General information only. This is not tax, legal or accounting advice, and no advisor relationship is created by it. Fizzion AI is not a certified public accountant, a tax advisor or a law firm, and gives no representation, warranty or guarantee of any particular tax outcome. How a payment is characterized depends on the final terms of your agreement, your entity, your jurisdiction and your own facts and circumstances, and it can change over time or with changes in law. Treatment also changes once you own the hardware outright, and if you buy equipment outright, Section 179 or bonus depreciation may let you accelerate the write-off. Consult your own tax advisor before relying on any of this. Fizzion AI accepts no liability for decisions made in reliance on this page.

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