Do the Math Before You Make the Case: Introducing the sonpito ROI Calculator
If you manage facilities for a living, you already know the argument for a better system. What you don't always have is the number that makes leadership listen.
That's why we built the sonpito ROI Calculator — a free, interactive tool that turns your day-to-day reality into the business case your CFO actually wants to see.
Built for how you actually work today
We know "facility management" isn't one-size-fits-all, so the calculator starts by meeting you where you are. Tell us which best describes your team:
You're running a legacy IWMS/CAFM system — paying for a license and support contract that feels heavier than the value it delivers.
You're tracking assets in spreadsheets — no dedicated tool at all, just manual entry, email chains, and tribal knowledge.
From there, you plug in your own numbers: locations, square footage, active users, current system or maintenance spend, and the hours your team spends administering workarounds or chasing down asset information. Every field updates your results live, so you can see your business case take shape in real time.
Real numbers, not guesswork
We didn't want this to be a black box. Every default in the calculator is grounded in a cited source:
12% reactive-to-preventive savings is the conservative end of the range from DOE/FEMP's 2010 research on maintenance approaches — heavily reactive facilities often see more.
$56.20/hour is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' mean hourly wage for Facilities Managers.
Two-thirds labor recovery reflects reality: sonpito still needs some care and feeding, so we don't pretend you'll reclaim every hour.
You can override any of these with your own figures, and a "Show the math" panel breaks down exactly how each result is calculated — no hidden formulas.
What the results actually show
Once your numbers are in, the calculator produces the metrics that matter to the people who approve budgets:
Total Annual Financial Benefit — labor gains plus reactive-to-preventive maintenance savings
Ongoing Annual ROI and Year 1 ROI (including implementation cost)
Payback Period — how many months until sonpito pays for itself
Cost comparisons per user and per square foot, so you can see the difference at any scale
For a legacy-system team, that often means going from a bloated annual contract to a fraction of the cost — while eliminating the admin overhead of babysitting the old platform. For a spreadsheet-only team, it means putting a number on all those manual hours that never showed up on a budget line before.
Take it to leadership, not just to yourself
Once you've dialed in your numbers, you can download a clean, one-page PDF summary — built for sharing with the people who sign off on new tools. It's the case for sonpito, made with your data. We also included a section beyond the calculator itself, covering the value that's harder to put a dollar sign on but still matters to finance: compliance and audit risk, downtime reduction, accurate tax and insurance records, and the ability to scale as your portfolio grows.
Try it for yourself
Whether you're stuck maintaining a legacy IWMS/CAFM system or running your entire operation out of spreadsheets, the calculator will show you what switching to sonpito could mean — in dollars, hours, and months to payback.
Calculate your ROI now →
Figures are planning estimates based on published industry sources. Replace them with your organization's actual numbers wherever possible for the most accurate picture.
