Hi {{firstname|there}},
Here's a question most dental groups have never sat down to answer properly:
What does your current associate pay process actually cost you?
Not in stress. Not in aggravation. In money.
It's surprisingly easy to absorb inefficiency when it arrives in small, recurring doses. Four hours here. An afternoon there. A senior team member staying late because the formula broke again. It doesn't feel like a crisis. It just feels like how things are.
But let's do the maths.
Take a finance manager on a reasonable salary, say £35,000 a year. That works out to roughly £17–18 an hour. Now add the hours lost each month to associate pay alone: pulling data, cross-referencing lab invoices, manually checking deductions, recalculating when something doesn't add up, responding to associate queries. Conservative estimate: four hours per site, per month.
One site: around £70 a month in senior staff time. Just for associate pay.
Five sites: £350. Every month. Without fail.
Ten sites: £700.
And that's before you account for errors. A pay dispute that escalates takes time to unpick, time to correct, and occasionally time to manage the relationship damage. That's harder to put a number on, but it's not zero.
We built a calculator so you can put your own numbers in, rather than taking mine.
It takes about sixty seconds. Plug in your number of sites, your finance team's approximate salary, and the hours you're currently spending on associate pay each month. The calculator does the rest.
If the number that comes out is smaller than the cost of Samera AI, walk away. Genuinely, it should only make sense for you if it stacks up. But for most groups running more than two or three sites, the maths tends to land somewhere uncomfortable.
On pricing: we've kept it straightforward. No enterprise quotes that require three calls to get to. No hidden add-ons.
One more thing, if you're running a DSO or a PE-backed group, the calculation looks a little different.
It's not just the staff hours. It's what those hours represent at exit. Operational efficiency, clean financial processes, and a finance function that doesn't depend on one person's spreadsheet, these things show up in how your business is valued. A group that can demonstrate airtight associate pay across ten or fifteen sites, with full supporting data and consistent application of deduction rules, is a cleaner business than one that can't. That's not a minor detail in an acquisition conversation.
Samera AI is, among other things, infrastructure for a group that's thinking beyond where it is right now.
If the ROI makes sense, the next step is simple.
Or if you'd rather see it in action first:
Speak soon,
Arun | samera.co.uk
Uros Turcic
Business Development Consultant
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