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Original data, with sources

Research we could not find elsewhere.

Numbers on Australian small-business automation that were not already published: admin hours by trade, an automation benchmark, and a register of what the nine major systems can actually do.

Research · 7 pages

The figures, dated and sourced.

  1. A port office at night with a stack of empty forms and a stopped clock
    REF 01

    Admin hours by trade

    No Australian government source publishes admin hours by trade. Here is what is published about the trades — hours worked, business counts, wages, the cost of compliance — and the arithmetic you can run on your own numbers instead.

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  2. A cargo scanner arch at a night container gate, one container passing through with its silhouette rendered on a screen, a few edges of the outline blurred.
    REF 02

    AI invoice extraction accuracy

    None of the three major cloud invoice models publishes an accuracy figure. The academic benchmarks are receipts, not invoices. Every number, sized and dated.

    Open
  3. A harbour statistics board of neon bars like a chart
    REF 03

    Australian SMB automation benchmark

    The ABS says 11% of small Australian businesses use AI. A Commonwealth-published tracker says 33–40%. Both are official. Here is every figure that does exist, with its reference period, and the ones that do not exist at all.

    Open
  4. A night-time container terminal seen from above: one long row of identical containers, a single one pulled out and open under a work lamp, its contents being counted by hand.
    REF 04

    Cost of manual data entry

    No Australian source measures what re-keying costs. What is published — the ATO’s $30.87 paper invoice, 2026 wages, lab error rates — and the sum for your own.

    Open
  5. Ships at anchor in a dark roadstead, riding lights in a long line, each waiting for a berth that is not yet free.
    REF 05

    DSO benchmark, Australian trades

    Nobody publishes a DSO for Australian trades. Three series measure payment times differently, landing between 6 and 34 days. Dated, side by side, plus the legal cap.

    Open
  6. A wall of illuminated ledger drawers in a port records room
    REF 06

    Integration capability register

    What nine business systems actually publish about their APIs, webhooks and data residency, field by field - with every gap recorded as a gap rather than guessed at.

    Open
  7. A harbour pilot boat leaving a wharf at night, its wake still bright, the freighter it is racing to already a distant set of lights.
    REF 07

    Quote response time vs conversion

    Every quote-response statistic in circulation is American, mostly vendor-published, the most quoted from 2011. No trades study exists. Each one dated and sized.

    Open
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