§00ROI estimate
What does your integration
backlog cost today?
Five questions about how you integrate now, four assumptions you can change, and an estimate you can check line by line.
Your numbers
Support contracts and change requests — your own team’s time is the next question.
Starting values are examples, not benchmarks. Type over any number.
Assumptions·yours to change
Salary, benefits and overhead, per hour.
Describing, reviewing, testing and approving — as a share of what a project costs today.
Share of maintenance spend and developer hours: monitoring, retries, schema changes.
Illustrative, not a quote — pricing depends on systems and volume.
Your estimate·per year
Estimate$186,200 less per year with PartnerMCP · estimate
- Integration projects$240k becomes $48k
- Maintenance spend$40k becomes $20k
- Developer time$68k becomes $34k
- PartnerMCP$60k · illustrative
Potential implementation spend avoided
$192,000
Per year · estimate
Potential engineering time recovered
360hours
Per year · estimate
Today, per year
- Integration projectsprojects per year × integrator cost per project4 × $60,000$240,000
- Maintenance spendas entered$40,000$40,000
- Developer timehours per month × 12 × loaded hourly cost60 × 12 × $95$68,400
Estimated traditional cost$348,400
With PartnerMCP, per year
- PartnerMCPproduction integrations × cost per integrationProduction integrations = systems − 1, the fewest that connect 6 systems. The cost per integration is illustrative, not a quote.5 × $12,000$60,000
- Your team’s project effortintegration projects × share that stays with your team$240,000 × 20%$48,000
- Maintenance leftmaintenance spend × (1 − share PartnerMCP absorbs)$40,000 × 50%$20,000
- Developer time leftdeveloper time × (1 − share PartnerMCP absorbs)$68,400 × 50%$34,200
Estimated PartnerMCP cost$162,200
Outcomes, per year
- Implementation spend avoidedintegration projects × (1 − share that stays with your team)$240,000 × 80%$192,000
- Engineering time recoveredhours per month × 12 × share PartnerMCP absorbs60 × 12 × 50%360 h
Every result is an estimate built only from the numbers above — no benchmarks or industry averages are mixed in. Starting values are examples; replace them with yours.
Arithmetic on your numbers. Nothing else.
No benchmarks, industry averages or customer results are mixed in. Here is what the estimate counts, what it leaves out, and how to choose each assumption.
Counted today
- Integration projects
- Projects per year × what an external integrator charges per project.
- Maintenance spend
- Support contracts and change requests, per year.
- Developer time
- Internal hours on integration upkeep × your loaded hourly cost.
Counted with PartnerMCP
- PartnerMCP
- An illustrative cost per production integration, per year — not a quote.
- Your team’s share
- Describing the outcome, reviewing the plan, testing and approving the release.
- What stays with you
- The maintenance spend and hours PartnerMCP doesn’t absorb.
Not counted — in either direction
Gains it leaves out
- How much sooner integrations go live
- What the backlog costs while requests wait
- Software or contracts you might retire
Costs it leaves out
- Moving integrations you already run
- Your team’s time to learn a new tool
Choosing the four assumptions
- 01Loaded developer cost
- What an hour of engineering costs you all-in: salary, benefits and overhead. Your finance team usually has this number.
- 02Project effort that stays with your team
- PartnerMCP plans, maps, builds and tests. Your team still describes the outcome, reviews the plan and approves the release. If your change process is heavy, raise it.
- 03Maintenance PartnerMCP absorbs
- Monitoring, retries, schema changes and routine fixes are PartnerMCP’s job. Vendor upgrades and business decisions stay with you. If you’re unsure, start lower.
- 04PartnerMCP per production integration
- Illustrative, not a quote. Pricing depends on the systems you connect and the volume they carry. Get a real number.
§02Next step
Get pricing for your systems.
The PartnerMCP cost above is illustrative. Tell us which systems should connect and what should happen — we’ll review them and follow up with pricing.