Savings & efficiency

Every pound and hour the AI has taken out of the repairs operation

Cost saved · This month

0

Verified against 18,640 jobs continuously scanned for excess materials, duplicate call-outs, wasted travel, avoidable overtime and repeat-repair spend.

Time saved

0hours

49 full-time weeks returned to the frontline

SLA penalties avoided

0breaches

Worth £14,500 in avoided penalty charges

With Wisebound AI vs legacy system
Rolling 12 months · same workload

Legacy no-AI cost

£5,230,200

Wisebound actual

£4,268,100

Difference

£962,100

18% lower

Cost per completed job

£148.4£101.2

Miles driven per job

7.8 mi4.9 mi

Return visits per 100 jobs

24 9

Admin minutes per job

22 min4 min

SLA breaches per 1,000 jobs

61 12

Overtime hours per week

214 h88 h

Where the money came from
This month
  • Travel & fuel

    Batched rounds, cluster routing and fewer cross-city trips

    £18,420
  • Repeat repairs avoided

    Replace-vs-repair calls made before the fourth failure

    £26,150
  • Materials waste

    Excess, wrong or double-booked parts caught at point of use

    £9,840
  • Avoidable overtime

    Load rebalanced before shifts overran

    £11,270
  • SLA penalties avoided

    Breaches predicted and covered before the clock ran out

    £14,500
  • Admin hours saved

    Voice-to-report, auto tenant comms and auto job notes

    £8,930
Operative league table
Savings contributed
  • 1

    Aileen Ferguson

    Heating engineer · EH4 · 142 jobs · 96% FTF · 98% on time

    £8,420

    6%

  • 2

    Marek Nowak

    Plumber · EH6 · 138 jobs · 94% FTF · 96% on time

    £7,810

    4%

  • 3

    Priya Kaur

    Electrician · EH16 · 129 jobs · 92% FTF · 95% on time

    £6,980

    3%

  • 4

    Dave MacLeod

    Heating engineer · EH4 · 121 jobs · 84% FTF · 88% on time

    £4,120

    2%

  • 5

    Siobhan Muir

    Joiner · EH11 · 118 jobs · 89% FTF · 91% on time

    £3,940

    1%

  • 6

    Callum Baxter

    Damp & mould · EH14 · 96 jobs · 71% FTF · 79% on time

    £1,180

    7%

Contractor performance
Cost vs framework benchmark
  • Northgate Mechanical

    Heating overflow · 312 jobs · 96% on time

    £168 /job

    £14 vs benchmark

  • Clyde Electrical Ltd

    EICR programme · 244 jobs · 93% on time

    £176 /job

    £4 vs benchmark

  • Firth Damp Solutions

    Damp & mould surveys · 188 jobs · 81% on time

    £214 /job

    +£24 vs benchmark

  • Lothian Roofworks

    Roofing & gutters · 96 jobs · 74% on time

    £268 /job

    +£28 vs benchmark

Re-tendering Lothian Roofworks at benchmark rate would return £2,688 a month.

Like-for-like variance
Same job, different hands · £123,524/yr gap

The AI matches jobs by fault code, property archetype and access type, then compares materials booked, time on site and first-time fix between whoever attended. Where two parties do the same work at different cost, it asks why.

  • Boiler - no heat / no hot water

    214 matched jobs compared

    +90% materials · +52 min

    Northgate Mechanical

    Benchmark

    contractor

    Materials
    £62
    On site
    74m
    First-time fix
    94%

    Firth Damp Solutions

    Outlier

    contractor

    Materials
    £118
    On site
    126m
    First-time fix
    78%

    Why: Firth fit a full valve kit on 61% of call-outs where Northgate replaces a single cartridge. Van stock differs, not the fault mix.

    Action: Standardise the first-fix parts list and move 40 boiler jobs/month to Northgate

    £61,440/yr recoverable
  • EICR remedial - consumer unit

    96 matched jobs compared

    +78% materials · +8 min

    Priya Kaur

    Benchmark

    operative

    Materials
    £41
    On site
    88m
    First-time fix
    92%

    Clyde Electrical Ltd

    Outlier

    contractor

    Materials
    £73
    On site
    96m
    First-time fix
    90%

    Why: Contractor bills RCBOs at list price; in-house draws from the framework store at 38% less for identical parts.

    Action: Route consumer-unit remedials in EH16 in-house; keep Clyde for overflow only

    £18,432/yr recoverable
  • Tap / mixer replacement

    148 matched jobs compared

    +21% materials · +32 min

    Marek Nowak

    Benchmark

    operative

    Materials
    £28
    On site
    39m
    First-time fix
    96%

    Dave MacLeod

    Outlier

    operative

    Materials
    £34
    On site
    71m
    First-time fix
    84%

    Why: 82 minutes average on site vs 39 for the same fault code. Isolation is being done at the main rather than the local valve.

    Action: Toolbox talk on local isolation + shadow shift with Marek

    £9,860/yr recoverable
  • Damp & mould - initial survey

    132 matched jobs compared

    +283% materials · +9 min

    Callum Baxter

    Benchmark

    operative

    Materials
    £12
    On site
    52m
    First-time fix
    71%

    Firth Damp Solutions

    Outlier

    contractor

    Materials
    £46
    On site
    61m
    First-time fix
    68%

    Why: Firth raise a follow-on survey on 1 in 3 visits that in-house closes first time. Same properties, same stock type.

    Action: Cap follow-on surveys at framework rate and re-inspect 22 open Firth cases

    £33,792/yr recoverable
Live saving events
Streaming
  • Materials

    Caught £84 of excess materials booked to a boiler repair

    Job #5521

    +£84

  • Travel

    Batched round in EH4 Craigleith - three visits became one run

    Round R-118

    +£26

    55 min

  • Duplicate

    Duplicate call-out blocked - same fault already booked for tomorrow

    Job #5533

    +£138

    1h 10m

  • Repeat repair

    Replacement recommended over a 4th patch repair on a Worcester 28i

    12/3 Elm Court

    +£1,240

  • SLA

    Predicted emergency breach covered 1h 52m early

    Job #4471

    +£350

  • Admin

    Voice report auto-written and tenant update sent without typing

    Job #4432

    +£11

    18 min

Savings opportunities found
Wisebound AI£61,440/yr · 185h

Firth costs 90% more than Northgate on identical boiler jobs

Across 214 matched no-heat call-outs: £118 materials and 126 min on site versus £62 and 74 min. Same fault codes, same stock archetype - Firth fit a full valve kit where Northgate replaces a cartridge.

Wisebound AI£1,240 saved · 6h 20m

Replace the Worcester 28i at 12/3 Elm Court

Four repairs in six months totalling £614 against a £2,050 replacement. Failure curve says two more call-outs before March.

Wisebound AI£1,860/month · 0h

Excess materials pattern on damp jobs

Anti-mould paint is being booked at 2.5 litres per job against a 1.2 litre average use. 38 jobs affected this month.

Wisebound AI£1,900/month · 47h

Move Leith routine slots to afternoons

11 no-access events in three weeks, all before 11:00. Re-slotting removes the repeat travel and the second visit entirely.

Wisebound AI£8,420 saved · 61h

Recognise Aileen Ferguson this month

96% first-time fix across 142 jobs and the highest savings contribution in the fleet. Her cluster-batching pattern is worth rolling out to EH14.

Board summary
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Wisebound removed £1,014,890 of cost from the repairs operation over the last 12 months - 18% below what the same workload would have cost on the legacy system - while returning 21,180 hours to frontline delivery and avoiding 1,298 SLA breaches.