What 30 minutes a plot is worth.
A deed plot done by hand takes about 35 minutes. On BoundaryLogic it takes about 5. Put your own team size, volume, and hourly cost in below and see what that difference is worth over a year, after the seats and the plot credits are paid for.
- Hours reclaimed a month That is 20.0 hours each, across 5 team members.
- 100.0
- Full-time equivalents freed Reclaimed hours divided by a 160-hour working month.
- 0.63
- Returned per $1 spent Labor value reclaimed divided by what BoundaryLogic costs over the same month.
- $8.82
- Same hours, more volume Plots your team could complete in the hours it spends on 200 today.
- 1,400
Break-even at 8 plots a month. Above that, the reclaimed time more than covers the software.
At these assumptions there is no time to reclaim: the minutes per plot on BoundaryLogic are not lower than the minutes per plot today.
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The math, line by line.
No black box. Every step below uses the numbers you entered, in the order they are applied.
| Step | How it is calculated | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Plotting time today | 200 plots × 35 min ÷ 60 | 116.7 hours a month |
| Plotting time on BoundaryLogic | 200 plots × 5 min ÷ 60 | 16.7 hours a month |
| Hours reclaimed | 116.7 − 16.7 | 100.0 hours a month |
| Labor value reclaimed | 100.0 hours × $45.00 | $4,500.00 a month |
| Professional seats | 5 × $29.99 | $149.95 a month |
| Plot credits | 200 plots × $1.80 | $360.00 a month |
| What BoundaryLogic costs | $149.95 + $360.00 | $509.95 a month |
| Your annual agreement | 2,400 plots a year × $1.80 | $0.00 a year |
| What BoundaryLogic costs | $0.00 ÷ 12 | $509.95 a month |
| Net gain a month | $4,500.00 − $509.95 | $3,990.05 a month |
| Net gain a year | $3,990.05 × 12 | $47,880.60 a year |
Where the 30 minutes go.
The saving is not a faster typist. It is the drafting step moving off the person and onto the platform, which leaves review, and review is quick.
per plot, average
Read the document and find the legal description
Key every call: bearings, distances, curves, ties
Close the traverse, then hunt whatever does not close
Place the parcel against PLSS or a recorded plat
Draft the exhibit and export it
per plot, average
Upload the document, or paste the description
Review the drafted call list and correct anything off
Check closure, gaps, and precision on the plot
Export to PDF, DXF, or GIS
What this assumes.
Stated plainly, so you can argue with any of it.
35 minutes by hand and 5 minutes on BoundaryLogic, both editable above. They are round numbers chosen to be defensible rather than flattering.
One legal description drafted, checked for closure, and exported. Not a page and not a document, but a description.
A loaded cost: wages plus payroll burden and benefits, typically 1.25 to 1.4 times base pay. Using base pay understates the saving.
On Professional and Expert, every team member you enter is a licensed seat. Expert costs more per seat and adds team management; it does not change what a plot costs.
Every plot is priced at $1.80 on a monthly credit pool sized to your volume, rather than letting plots past a smaller pool fall to the $3.00 pay-as-you-go rate. The pool is always the better deal, so that is what a team running this volume would actually buy. Only AI Automated Plotting draws credits: manual plotting, PDF export, and DXF export are free on every plan and are never counted here.
Enterprise prices a year of plots at $1.80 each with seats included, so the yearly volume you enter sets the whole cost. It comes out lowest here because it trades a volume commitment for the seat fee, and it is sales-led: treat the figure as the shape of the deal, not a quote.
Eligible education and government teams get 50% off after verification. The calculator does not apply it, so if that is you, your real cost is lower than the figure above.
Rework avoided, faster file turnaround, and errors caught before they leave the office. All real, none of it in the figure above.
Questions about the numbers
Where does 35 minutes come from?
It is a deliberately round, conservative figure for a full manual pass on one legal description: reading the document, keying every call, closing the traverse, chasing the error, placing the parcel, and producing the exhibit. Complicated descriptions run well past it and simple ones come in under. If your own average is different, type it in. The calculator recomputes on your number, not ours.
Why does the calculator subtract what BoundaryLogic costs?
Because hours multiplied by a wage is not a business case. The figure you can take to whoever signs the invoice is what is left after the software is paid for, so seats and plot credits are inside the arithmetic and shown as their own lines in the derivation.
What is the difference between the two pricing modes?
Rate card is the published self-service pricing: you pick a plan, seats bill every month, and each AI plot draws a credit. An annual agreement is a single negotiated figure covering the year, seats included, which is why that mode asks one question instead of three. Pick whichever matches how you would actually buy. The two never combine, so the annual figure is never charged on top of credits.
Does the 5-minute figure require AI Automated Plotting?
Yes. Five minutes is upload, review the drafted calls, check closure, export. The drafting is the AI step, and it draws a credit. That credit is in the cost line. Manual plotting stays free forever, but free manual plotting is not the five-minute path, and we do not model it as one. See AI Automated Plotting.
How do the credit prices in the calculator work?
Every plot is priced at $1.80, the monthly credit pool rate. A pool is sized by seat count to begin with, and a team plotting more than that tops the pool up rather than letting the extra plots fall to the $3.00 pay-as-you-go rate, because the pool is always the better deal. So the calculator prices the pool a team at your volume would actually buy, and your cost per plot stays flat as volume grows instead of drifting upward. The pricing page has the full rate card.
What if our volume is uneven month to month?
Use your monthly average. Unused pool credits roll over, capped at three months, so a quiet month is not lost.
Can I share the numbers I put in?
Yes. Your inputs are written into the page address as you type, so “Copy link to these numbers” gives you a link that opens on exactly the figures you are looking at. Nothing you enter is sent to us or stored.
Check it against your own deed.
The fastest way to test the five minutes is to plot something you already know. Manual plotting is free, and your first 10 AI plots are free.