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Recovery Cost Estimator

Quantify downtime impact to justify continuity investment. ResiPlan links this cost to your RTO/RPO and BIA.

Recovery cost estimator

€50,000

Estimated cost = hours × revenue/hour + recovery costs.

Why put a number on downtime

It's your business case

Put a euro figure on an outage and continuity investment stops being a hard sell.

Leaders fund what they quantify

A number the board understands turns 'we should' into an approved budget.

It's the input to RTO/RPO

Knowing the cost per hour tells you how fast you actually need to recover.

How it works

1

Estimate the cost

Size the cost of downtime for a critical process with the tool above.

2

Build the case

In ResiPlan, the figure feeds the BIA and justifies RTO/RPO objectives for each process.

3

Fund & test

Turn the approved objectives into tested recovery plans and audit-ready evidence.

Frequently asked questions

What drives downtime cost?

Lost revenue, idle staff, SLA penalties, recovery labour and reputational impact — the estimator combines them into an hourly and total figure.

How accurate is the estimate?

It's a directional business-case figure. In ResiPlan, refine it per process in the BIA for defensible numbers.

Recovery Cost Estimator — downtime cost calculator (free) | ResiPlan