80 people probably won't lose their jobs. Some will be reassigned, some retire, others will leave, etc. However, you can probably achieve a significant cost sav

80 people probably won't lose their jobs. Some will be reassigned, some retire, others will leave, etc. However, you can probably achieve a significant cost saving. Put together something compelling, i.e. take 5-10 reports put together by people and 5-10 by your software. Ask management to pick the files put together by the team. Show your software is just as accurate. What you do then is you leverage the heck out of this opportunity to increase your salary. If you can save the company $4M in annual staff expenses, ask (read: demand) for a one time $2m bonus and a $500k increase in salary. Get this stuff in writing. Make sure they can't screw you over and "steal" your system if they don't want to give you a decent bonus. This has value. Don't talk about money before proving it actually works.