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When you’re held to several compliance frameworks, their controls overlap — the same requirement appears, in different words, across standards. PolicyMerge combines your frameworks so you assess each overlapping control once. The savings calculator in the PolicyMerge area estimates the effort that deduplication saves. This page explains how it works.

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The estimate in one line

Without merging, you’d assess every control in every framework — including the duplicates. With merging, you assess each unique control once. The savings is the difference, valued at an hourly rate you choose.

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The calculation

The calculator works from two adjustable assumptions:
AssumptionWhat it is
Hours per control assessmentHow long it takes your team to assess one control.
Consultant hourly rateThe cost you attach to that time.
From your selected frameworks it computes:
  • Hours without merge — total controls including duplication × hours per control.
  • Hours with merge — unique controls (duplicates collapsed) × hours per control.
  • Hours saved — the difference between the two.
  • Cost saved — hours saved × your hourly rate.

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Adjust the assumptions

Both inputs are yours to set. Tune the hours-per-control and the hourly rate to match your team and your market, and the estimate updates. This lets you ground the figure in your own numbers rather than ours.
The figures are an adjustable planning estimate to help you reason about effort saved by deduplicating overlapping controls — not a customer-specific guarantee.

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Next steps

PolicyMerge

Read the overlap view.

Compliance overview

How frameworks and controls fit together.