Plug in your inspection business numbers. See your annual report labor savings, admin overhead reduction, Year 1 net ROI, and payback period for a purpose-built NDT ERP deployment.
The calculator uses six inputs that together describe the report-production cost structure of a typical NDT inspection business, plus two industry-benchmark assumptions derived from published NDT ERP case studies and our own implementation data across 100+ inspection company deployments.
Atlantis NDT Suite is positioned as affordable, accessible, and fully customizable across small (5-10 tech), mid (25-40 tech), and enterprise (50+ tech) deployments — pricing varies by region and team size, so we share a tailored quote when you contact us at info@atlantisndt.com rather than publishing a fixed list price here. Implementation fees and training are not included in the net ROI; plan an additional one-time cost for those, typically recouped in the first 4-6 months. The calculator is deliberately conservative: it ignores downstream revenue uplift from faster report turnaround (winning repeat business from clients) and from expanded capacity (same team doing more jobs because they are not stuck in paperwork).
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How the calculator works — assumptions explained
Every estimate of this kind rests on assumptions, and the useful ones state them. The output here is a starting figure for a conversation with your own operations and finance teams — not a quotation, and not a substitute for a scoped assessment. Inputs you supply about your own operation dominate the result; industry defaults are only used where you have no figure of your own, and they are deliberately conservative.
Getting the inputs right
Use your own historical figures wherever you have them. Operations teams are usually accurate about downtime and mobilisation cost because they have lived through the events; vendor benchmarks are not.
Count the non-billable time honestly — report preparation, audit-evidence assembly, standby and rework are where inspection businesses actually lose margin, and they are routinely excluded from estimates.
Separate one-off transition effort from recurring effect. Benefits that depend on a workflow change take one to two inspection cycles to appear, not one month.
Test the result at the edges. If the conclusion reverses when a single input moves 20%, the conclusion is the input, not the model.
How to read the output
Treat the figure as a range, not a point. In practice the largest and most reliable component of value in inspection operations is time recovered from work that produces no revenue — report formatting, chasing certification and calibration records, and assembling evidence for audits. The least reliable components are those that assume immediate behaviour change across a whole organisation. Weight your interpretation accordingly, and if you are building an internal business case, present the conservative end.
What it does not tell you
It does not tell you whether your data is in a state to support the change, which is usually the real constraint. Before committing to any programme on the strength of a calculator, check whether you can reconstruct one issued inspection report end to end — technician qualification, instrument calibration and procedure revision as at the date of inspection. If you cannot, that gap will consume more of the timeline than anything this tool models.
Most companies do not fail at their craft. They lose time, margin and goodwill in the gaps between the tools they use to run the place — a quoting spreadsheet that does not talk to the job sheet, a job sheet that does not reach accounts, and a compliance folder nobody can search when a client asks. Atlantis closes those gaps by putting the whole operation on one platform, so information is entered once and everything downstream stays in step.
What you can run on it
Sales and CRM — leads, quotes, follow-ups and the pipeline that tells you what next month looks like.
Projects and job costing — plan the work, track the hours and materials against it, and see the margin while the job is still live rather than at final account.
Field and service teams — dispatch, schedules, mobile capture that works with no signal, and sign-off from site.
Inventory and purchasing — stock, suppliers, reorder points and goods receipt, joined to the jobs that consume them.
People — records, qualifications and licences with renewal reminders, timesheets, leave and payroll.
Quality and documents — procedures and forms under revision control, with the audit trail an inspection or accreditation body actually asks for.
Accounts — invoicing, expenses, multi-currency and the reporting your accountant stops chasing you for.
Affordable, accessible, fully customizable — and we mean each word
Affordable because the whole suite is included rather than sold to you a module at a time, and because implementation is done by people who have run operations rather than by a chain of subcontractors. Accessible because it runs in a browser and on a phone, works for a small team on day one, and does not need a specialist on staff to keep it alive. Fully customizable because your process is the thing that makes you competitive — the software should bend to it, not the other way round.
Industries we configure for
Service businesses and contractors, manufacturing and fabrication, trading and distribution, laboratories and testing houses, engineering consultancies, construction and facilities, and asset owners across energy, marine, aerospace and infrastructure. Inspection and testing is where we started, and it remains the sector we go deepest in — but the platform underneath is general-purpose, and most of what it does has nothing to do with inspection at all.
What happens when you get in touch
A short conversation, not a sales sequence. We ask how the business runs today and where it hurts, show you the platform doing that work, and send a written quote shaped to your region, your team size and the scope you actually need. No obligation, nothing to install first, and no pressure to decide on the call. Reach out and tell us what you are trying to fix.
No, and it is usually a poor idea. Most implementations start with the part of the business where the pain is sharpest — often quoting and job costing, or scheduling and field capture — and run it alongside what you use today until people trust it. Once that is steady, the next area follows. Moving everything in one weekend is how projects acquire the reputation they have; moving one process at a time is how they succeed.
What happens to the spreadsheets we already rely on?
They are the specification, not the enemy. A spreadsheet that has survived years of daily use encodes real decisions about how your business works, and the first job of implementation is to read it properly. Some become configured processes in the platform, some stay as spreadsheets because that is genuinely the right tool, and a few turn out to exist only because two systems could not talk to each other, and simply stop being needed.
Our process is unusual. Will we have to change how we work?
The unusual part is often the thing that makes you competitive, so bending it to fit software is the wrong trade. The platform is configured around your process rather than the other way round. Where we do push back is on process that exists to work around a previous system's limitations — that is worth removing rather than reproducing.
How long before it is actually running?
Sooner than a traditional enterprise rollout, because the scope is deliberately narrow at first. A single well-chosen process can be live and useful while the rest is still being planned. What extends timelines is almost never the software — it is data cleanliness and decision-making on the customer side, which is why we agree early who owns which decision.
What happens to our data if we stop using it?
It leaves with you in a usable form. Ask this of every vendor you evaluate, and treat a vague answer as an answer. Being able to exit is what keeps a supplier relationship honest, and a platform confident in its value has no reason to make leaving difficult.
Do we need someone technical on staff to keep it running?
No. It runs in a browser and on a phone, and day-to-day administration — adding users, adjusting a workflow, changing a form — is designed to be done by the people who run the business rather than by a specialist. Deeper changes are a conversation with us, not a recruitment exercise.
Will this help us pass a client or accreditation audit?
It is built for it. The things audits actually ask for — that the person who did the work was qualified at the time, that the equipment was in calibration, that the procedure revision in force was the one followed, and that the records can be produced on request — are held as records with dates rather than as folders someone has to search. The difference at audit is between retrieving evidence and reconstructing it.
What happens when a qualification or calibration is about to expire?
You are told before it lapses rather than after. Expiry is tracked against the person or the instrument, and the warning arrives while there is still time to act, which is the difference between rescheduling work and cancelling it.