With Process automation, your company absorbs minimum wage increases and changes to working hours without growing payroll: repeated work stops being paid by the hour, and what it gives back is written into the contract as a target
The cost of every hour of work is decided outside your company: in 2026 the minimum wage rose 23%, the workweek fell to 42 hours and the Sunday premium is on its way to 100%. What your company does decide is how much repeated work it keeps paying by the hour. Process automation runs it in batches, with your team free for what needs judgement.
Process automation · what raises the cost of every hour
Four recent changes, each with its regulation and its date, that add up on the same hour of work.
| What changed | Before | Now | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| The minimum wage | COP 1,423,500 a month (2025) | COP 1,750,905 a month (2026), 23% more | Decree 1469 of 2025, ratified by Decree 0159 of 2026 |
| The maximum workweek | 48 hours a week (until July 2023) | 42 hours from 15 July 2026, with the same pay | Law 2101 of 2021 |
| The Sunday and public holiday premium | 80% (until June 2026) | 90% from July 2026 and 100% from July 2027 | Law 2466 of 2025 |
| Night work | From 9:00 p.m. | From 7:00 p.m., since 25 December 2025, with a 35% premium | Law 2466 of 2025 |
All added up, a minimum wage worker costs your company more than COP 2.9 million a month, according to BDO (January 2026). The audit counts how many of those hours go into repeated work.
Figures in force as of 23 October 2026. The 2026 minimum wage decree is provisional while its court proceedings continue.
How do I stop paying overtime and premiums for work that could run on its own?
With Process automation, the payroll solution ends up being a productivity one: what is paid today as overtime or with a premium runs on its own, in batches, and your team does within its working hours the work that used to spill over. How many times more each person produces is measured before and after, and that figure is the target that goes into the contract.
Process automation · the same work, two ways
Four jobs that are paid today with overtime or a premium, and what is counted in each one before building and again at the end.
| The work | Today | With Process automation | What is counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank reconciliation | Matched by hand at the end of the day, sometimes after 7:00 p.m. | The match runs overnight and only the items that do not reconcile arrive flagged | The hours it takes and the items still reviewed by hand |
| The month-end close | The matching piles up for the last days of the month, and the team stays late | The matching that prepares it runs every night during the month | The working days between month-end and the financial statements |
| Daily reports | Someone puts them together at the end of the shift, with the night premium | They put themselves together with the last batch of the day | What is paid each month in night premium |
| Weekend uploads | Uploaded on Sunday, with their premium | They run on their own over the weekend | What is paid each month in Sunday premium |
Example: the jobs and what is counted change in each company; the audit chooses them.
How do I budget payroll if the minimum wage and the rules change every year?
The minimum wage is announced in December and the rules change with every reform, so payroll is budgeted blind. With Process automation, repeated work comes out of that sum: its cost is fixed on signing and stays the same even if the decree changes. What remains on payroll is the work that needs judgement, and that is budgeted with the people who do it.
Do the hours that automation frees up turn into pesos saved, and what happens to the people?
It depends on what you choose before starting. Whatever does not become savings is put to moving one of your KPIs: response times, customer service, quality of work or rework. What changes for each person is agreed at that same moment, together with the list of the steps that are never automated.
Process automation · where the freed-up time can go
| The KPI | How it is measured | What the person works on |
|---|---|---|
| Response times | How long passes from when a request arrives until it is answered | Answers and follows up on what used to wait in the inbox |
| Customer service | How many requests are resolved on first contact | Looks after the customer who needs an explanation or a call |
| Quality of work | How many errors reach review or the customer | Reviews the cases the system flags as exceptions |
| Rework | How many delivered jobs come back to be corrected | Fixes the cause of the error, not the same error every week |
The KPI is chosen with you and measured with your company's records.
How much does it cost to automate with AI, and what guarantees do I have on the result?
You pay to move one of your company's KPIs, not for hours of work. A process starts at COP 7.1 million, and if that KPI does not reach the target within the agreed deadline, the value of the build is returned to you, as set out in the outcome guarantee agreement. The audit that measures your starting point, at COP 1.7 million, is credited to the price and is not part of the refund. Later adjustments are charged one by one, with no monthly fee.
Process automation · what each step costs and what the guarantee covers
| Step | What is delivered | Timeline | From | The guarantee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The audit | The process worth automating first, how many hours it consumes today and the number that has to improve | 1 to 3 weeks | COP 1.7 million, credited to the price of the process | Paid for: its report already stays in your company |
| One automated process | That process running on its own, with its KPI measured before and after | 4 to 8 weeks | COP 7.1 million | We refund what was paid for the build if, when the deadline closes, the KPI is still below target |
| A whole automated area | The repeated processes of an area, each with its KPI | 12 to 16 weeks | COP 26 million | The same, on the KPI of each process |
| An adjustment | A new rule or a different format in a process already automated | 1 week | COP 800,000 each | Charged only when you ask for it |
Prices in Colombian pesos, before VAT, valid from October 2026.
Everything starts with measuring: the audit puts in pesos the process that costs you the most hours, and that report is yours from day one. The rules that process applies, such as which premium applies and from when, are cited with their regulation; in a company brain they already live that way.
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