Overheated
The reversal calculator
What cutting ahead of the evidence actually costs.
Set the team size, what the bot really covers, and how deep the cut goes. The calculator splits the seats into covered and overcut, prices the rehiring round, and shows when the year-one savings survive it — and when they don’t.
Interactive instrument
Seats keptCut, covered by automationCut beyond coverage
Year-one savings€5.5M
Reversal bill€5.0M
Net effect+€420k
40 seats are cut beyond what the automation covers. If the pattern holds, the reversal bill consumes 92% of the year-one savings — before counting what the departures took with them.
A deliberately small model — built to make one asymmetry visible, not to forecast your business. The assumptions are conservative and the arithmetic is in the open.
The analysis behind it
The 90-day headcount experiment→