Free Tool
AI ROI Calculator
Pick one task your team repeats every week. Put in the hours. See what a realistic AI pilot gives back, with review time, software seats, and setup already subtracted. It takes about a minute, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
What a realistic pilot gives back
Fill in the hours a week and your results appear here, live.
0 hours
back every week, after review time
0
hours back a year
Add a rate
a year, net of software seats
Pays back in about
counting setup hours and the first month of seats
0 weeks
What this one task covers
- The $495 AI Opportunity Audit
- A $3,000 team workshop
Weeks of this task's net value, for scale. The audit fee comes off whatever you book within 30 days.
Same math as the AI for ROI™ Framework and the Jump Start. Review time, seats, and setup are subtracted, not ignored.
How the Math Works
Deliberately conservative
Most AI ROI calculators multiply your hours by a big percentage and call it savings. This one keeps a human in the loop, because that is how the AI for ROI™ Framework runs every pilot, and it treats the costs as real.
- 1Hours back a week = hours the task takes now, minus the share you keep doing, minus the time you still spend reviewing AI output, times the number of people. At "about half" with 20% review, that is 30% of the old time, not 50%.
- 2Dollars a year = hours back times 52 times your loaded hourly cost, minus twelve months of software seats for everyone doing the task.
- 3Payback in weeks = the setup hours at your rate plus the first month of seats, divided by what one week gives back. Rounded to the nearest week, never below one.
A structured pilot can beat this. We would rather your number came in low than high, because a number you can trust is one you can act on.
Where the Number Goes Next
One task is a start. Three moves is a plan.
The calculator tests one task. The ladder below is how teams turn that into results they can report.
AI for ROI™ Jump Start
Take this task into a 10-minute tool that maps the steps, defines a 14 or 30-day pilot, and leaves you with a dated plan. Phases 1 and 2 of the framework, done.
AI Opportunity Audit
$495
We look across your whole team, not one task, and your AI Opportunity Report names the three highest-ROI moves within 48 hours. The fee credits toward anything you book within 30 days.
AI for ROI™ Workshop
$3,000
Your whole team runs this exercise on their own work, in person or virtual, and builds the pilots live with the tools you already pay for. You leave with working workflows.
Questions
About the numbers
How accurate are these numbers?
They are deliberately conservative. The calculator subtracts the time you still spend reviewing AI output and the cost of software seats, and it counts setup time against payback. The estimate is built to come in low, and we would rather it did than the other way around.
Why do you subtract review time?
Because a human still checks the work. In the AI for ROI™ Framework, every pilot keeps a person in the loop, so the time to review output is a real cost. Ignoring it is the most common way AI ROI estimates end up wrong.
Is my data stored?
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere. If you choose to email yourself the results, we send the hours and payback figures to your inbox. Your hourly cost or salary never leaves the page.
What should I do with the number?
Take the task into the free AI for ROI™ Jump Start to turn it into a dated 14 or 30-day pilot plan, or book the $495 AI Opportunity Audit and we will find the three highest-ROI moves across your whole team, not just the one task you tested here.
Want the number for your whole team?
The audit finds your three highest-ROI moves, with the hours and dollars where they are defensible, within 48 hours of our call.
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