The system sets a category for questions to the school office and drafts a reply from approved information. A message with a confidential attachment goes straight to the named person.
Automation, paid once
from €3,000 net
Test on your process: €0
You pay 50% after acceptance
How much does email automation for a school cost, and when does it pay back?
Short answer
Email automation for a school costs from €3,000 net. In our scenario it pays back in 1.2 months. Today, 20 hours a week of school office email cost €3,022 a month. With the system, the same work costs €470. Pupil records stay outside the system in the first scope. The school office approves every reply. The test on your process is free.
Statistics
Email and AI statistics 2025
8.8 h
According to Microsoft (2023), the people who work most with email spend 8.8 hours a week on it.
a month for a school spending 20 hours a week on the school office inbox
Today€3,022
With the system€470
Payback: 1.2 mo.
In your company
Small school
8 h a week · €1,208 a month
2.9 mo. payback
Mid-sized school
20 h a week · €3,022 a month
1.2 mo. payback
Group of schools
60 h a week · €9,067 a month
0.4 mo. payback
The team gets back about 74 hours of work a month, or 9 working days, and the company €30,619 a year. We count after the time a person spends checking and after the model cost.
20 h a week × 4.33 weeks = 86.6 h × €34.90 = €3,022 a month. The system drafts a reply to every email, and a person checks it in 15% of the old time (€453). The model costs €17. That leaves €470. The saving is €2,552 a month, so €3,000 pays back in 1.2 months.
Assumptions: Today our system at foap.com drafts a reply to every email that needs one (October 2026). The hours assigned to each firm size and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. We count the model at €9.87 per 1,000 emails (Claude Sonnet 5.5, 3,000 + 500 tokens per email, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026), at 3 minutes of work per email.
foap.com customer service: 95% of replies are sent automatically.
Users from several countries write to foap.com, in several languages. The system reads the entire conversation and the terms of that person, and then sends a response in that person's language. Questions about money and exceptions go to the team with a ready draft, so they have to check and send them.
the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
95%
the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
30 s
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
100%
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
47 h
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
Data from foap.com production, October 20-21, 2026. Estimate: 3 minutes for handwritten response.
Since September 2026 our system has handled the foap.com inbox
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A draft reply from the school's approved information
Messages with a confidential attachment bypass the system
A first trial on made-up messages
What happens to your data
You choose the test cases. We anonymise them on request.
They stay in the EU and we delete them after the test.
We sign the NDA and the data processing agreement before we receive anything.
After acceptance you keep the code, the test set and the documentation. You pay for licences and model usage directly to the provider.
Questions
How much does school email automation cost?
From €3,000 net, paid once. After the 5-day test the build takes 2 to 6 weeks. You get a fixed price before the contract: 50% on signing and 50% after acceptance on your own emails.
Does the system send replies on its own?
The system prepares a draft, and the school office checks the recipient, the content and the attachments before sending. Sending stays in the email program you already use.
What about pupils' data?
We run the first trial on made-up messages, without pupil records. Messages with attachments go to the named person without the model reading them.
When does it not pay off?
When email takes less than 2 h a week, the payback takes more than a year. Then it is better to start with training, or ChatGPT or Claude for the school office, from €1,150 net.
What do we need to prepare?
A list of the most common questions to the school office with approved answers, and the people who handle confidential matters.
What our OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships mean for you.
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