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AI ROI Calculator

Business case for an AI project, including the hours that come back as supervising it.

AI ROI Calculator

Work out what a process actually costs you today, and what automating it would return. It includes the line most business cases leave out, and that line is usually why they do not survive the post-implementation review. Runs entirely in your browser.

The process today

How many people take part each time the process runs.

Salary plus employer taxes, benefits, equipment and overhead. Typically 1.25 to 1.4. Using bare salary understates the cost of the time by roughly a third.

What automation would do to it

Be honest. A process that took four hours and now takes twenty minutes of work plus three hours of checking has not saved anything, it has changed the job title.

Costs, if you want the net position

Leave these blank for the gross figure alone. Fill them in and you get payback and a year-one number, which is what anyone approving it will ask for.

How to read this tool

It runs entirely in your browser and nothing you type is transmitted or stored. The output is indicative and derived from your own inputs, so it is only as good as they are. It is educational material, not professional, financial, legal or tax advice, and it is not an audit, a quote or a substitute for review by someone who can see your actual environment.