How fast does Kernas pay off for your business?
Calculate in under a minute how much administrative time and cost you could potentially save with a central asset, inspection and maintenance platform.
This calculation is a model, not a guarantee of future savings.
Your inputs
Applies across all areas. Use your actual fully-loaded cost, including payroll overhead, where possible.
How are these assumptions derived?
Kernas estimates the starting workload from the number of managed elements. The actual effort depends on your processes, data quality and organizational complexity. You can adjust the suggested value at any time.
This calculator only accounts for saved working time at first. Optionally, you can add your own experience with avoided extra costs per area.
Typical tasks
- Maintaining asset data
- Searching for assets
- Tracking locations
- Checking inspection status
- Planning inspections
- Planning maintenance
- Searching for documents
- Tracking history
- Finding who's responsible
- Spreadsheet/list upkeep
- Manual reminders
- Internal follow-up questions
Additional benefit (optional)
Typical tasks
- Searching for contracts
- Maintaining contract data
- Searching for documents
- Tracking terms
- Following up on notice periods
- Tracking renewals
- Clarifying contacts/responsibilities
- Tracing links to organizations, people or properties
- Maintaining separate spreadsheets
Kernas isn't a full enterprise CLM today — no contract negotiation, e-signature, contract generation or complex approval workflows — so this area is deliberately calculated more conservatively than with specialized CLM systems.
Additional benefit (optional)
Typical tasks
- Maintaining vehicle data
- Managing documents
- Checking maintenance
- Monitoring inspections/due dates
- Tracking responsibilities
- Checking vehicle history
- Internal follow-up questions
- List upkeep
No savings assumed from features Kernas doesn't have — e.g. telematics, route optimization, GPS fleet control or fuel optimization.
Additional benefit (optional)
Typical tasks
- Looking up key assignments
- Tracking issue/return
- Determining current holder
- Clarifying key location
- Answering follow-up questions
- Assigning keys to doors/properties/people
- Maintaining manual lists
Additional benefit (optional)
Typical tasks
- Looking up property information
- Searching for documents
- Clarifying people/responsibilities
- Tracking locations and building structure
- Gathering information for internal follow-up questions
- Consolidating information from different lists/folders/systems
- Identifying linked assets
- Identifying linked contracts
- Tracing relationships between people
- Pulling up documents centrally
- Preparing information for handovers or meetings
Properties mainly reduces context, search and linking effort — linked contracts, assets and documents aren't managed a second time in full, they're just made directly findable in the property's context. Not yet included: rent accounting, utility billing, rent collection, tenant communication, damage management, contractor dispatch, cleaning scheduling, or letting/leasing processes.
Your result
Recommended plan: Standard
27 hrs 9 min
Time saved per month
16289 CHF
Potential savings per year
of which additional assumed benefit per year: 0 CHF
582 %
Calculated ROI
4 days
to break even
Where the savings come from
Kernas only needs to save you 55 min per week for the software to fully pay for itself.
Your monthly Kernas cost is mathematically earned back after approx. 4 days.
Not yet factored in: avoided equipment downtime, fewer lost assets, less search time beyond the stated admin time, better inspection organization and reduced follow-up costs.
Today vs. with Kernas
Without Kernas
- Spreadsheets
- Manual reminders
- Scattered documents
- Unknown inspection status
- Unnecessary follow-up questions
- Reactive maintenance
- Lack of transparency
With Kernas
- Central data source
- Automatic due dates
- Structured inspections
- Maintenance overview
- Documents on the object
- Clear responsibilities
- Traceable history
Not everything can be measured in money.
Inspections at a glance
Spot due and overdue inspections faster.
More predictable maintenance
Act in time, before problems turn into unplanned downtime.
Traceable documentation
History, documents and responsibilities available centrally.
Ready to test the potential in practice?
Get started with Kernas today.
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- Regular backups
Why digital inventory management pays off financially
Investments in a central asset, inspection and maintenance platform are often judged by a single figure: the software cost. What actually matters economically is how much time a team currently spends searching, asking around and maintaining manual lists — and how much of that can be eliminated with centralized, automatically updated information. Even a comparatively small weekly time saving can add up, over a year, to an amount that clearly exceeds the cost of a management platform. The calculator on this page makes that relationship visible using your own numbers, rather than a blanket promise.
The hidden cost of manual asset management
Spreadsheets, local folders and the memory of individual employees look free at first glance. In practice, costs accumulate in many small places: looking up where a device currently is, reconciling several versions of the same list, following up between colleagues, or re-entering information that technically already exists somewhere. This time is rarely tracked systematically — which is exactly why it stays invisible in many companies, even though it can be measured directly in staff hours.
Maintenance and inspections: from reactive to plannable
Recurring inspection and maintenance obligations are one of the biggest sources of unnecessary administrative effort in many operations. Without a central overview, deadlines often only become visible once they're already overdue or a problem has occurred. A structured view of deadlines, responsibilities and the status of every inspection changes that logic: responsible people spot upcoming dates early and can plan them into existing workflows instead of reacting under time pressure. That reduces effort and helps companies meet inspection and maintenance obligations more reliably.
Unplanned failures and their follow-up costs
An unplanned equipment failure rarely causes only the direct repair cost. It typically brings production downtime, replacement procurement, rescheduled commitments to customers, or extra coordination within the team. Not every failure can be avoided — but many are connected to missed or delayed maintenance. Making upcoming maintenance and inspections visible in time reduces the risk that a task that was actually plannable turns into an unplanned stoppage. This calculator's optional section lets you factor in your own experience with avoided failures — as an individual assumption, not a general promise.
Central documentation as a safety factor
Beyond pure time savings, transparency plays a growing role in operational safety. When a device's location, condition, inspection status, maintenance history and responsibilities are documented traceably in one place, the risk drops that important information gets lost during a staff change, a handover, or an external audit. This doesn't replace legal advice or a statutory inspection duty — but it makes visible what a company is already responsible for today, and makes it easier to demonstrate that responsibility is being met.