FOI ROI calculator.

Model the annual hours and dollars your FOI team could reclaim with AccessPoint. Defaults are conservative — adjust any input or savings curve to match your scenario, and the math updates live.

Inputs

Minutes

Payback

Your FOI program

Enter the volume, time, and cost shape of your FOI workload today. If you don't know exact numbers, the defaults are reasonable starting points for a mid-sized public body.

Volume & cost

Annual FOI requests Formal access requests received per year

200

Departments per request Average custodians or business areas involved

Past statutory deadline Share of requests that go to extension or breach

25%

Loaded hourly cost FOI staff fully-loaded rate (salary + benefits + overhead)

$85/hr

Average hours per request, by phase

Phase 1 Administration & collection Intake, scoping, custodian search direction, document gathering

12 hr

Phase 2 Coordination & tracking Hours per involved business area — handoffs, status check-ins, statutory clock management (multiplied by your departments-per-request above)

2 hr/area

Phase 3 Review & redaction Exemption review, applying redactions, response packaging

5 hr

Where AccessPoint saves time

Each phase has a different defensible savings curve. Defaults sit at the conservative end — adjust them down to stress-test the math, or up if your team has done a structured pilot.

Phase 1 Administration & collection SharePoint-native search and records-in-place eliminate manual export and upload.

45%

Phase 2 Coordination & tracking Real-time dashboards replace email chains and manual status updates.

25%

Phase 3 Review & redaction Reusable exemption rationale and consistent redaction tooling reduce review time.

15%

Your annual savings

Computed from your inputs above. The breakdown shows where the dollars come from — useful for stress-testing each assumption independently.

Estimated annual savings

0 hours reclaimed · 0.0 FTE equivalent
From $0 annual FOI labour cost down to $0

0 requests per year are at risk of going past your statutory deadline. AccessPoint's clock dashboards make those breaches visible before they happen.

Administration & collection $0

0 hr saved · 45% of phase

Coordination & tracking $0

0 hr saved · 25% of phase

Review & redaction $0

0 hr saved · 15% of phase

Against AccessPoint's flat rate — your organization size

Employees in your organization — every tier includes every feature, unlimited users.

All-in annual cost
license + ~$2,100 Azure

Net annual benefit

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Pays for itself in

License tiers are AccessPoint's public flat rates — no per-user or per-module fees. Azure infrastructure (typically ~$175/month) bills at Microsoft's own rates in your subscription, with no vendor markup. And this model covers access requests only: assessments, breach response, and complaints aren't counted, so treat the savings as a floor.