AI ROI Calculator

How the AI ROI Calculator works

You set 9 sliders in 3 groups. Productivity Benefit covers employees affected, average fully loaded annual salary, and productivity gain as a percent of working hours. Implementation and Operating Costs covers one-time implementation cost in Year 1, annual license or subscription, and annual operations cost. Adoption Rate by Year covers the share of affected employees using the tool in Years 1, 2 and 3.

Full annual benefit is employees times salary times productivity gain. Each year's benefit is that figure times the year's adoption rate. Year 1 cost is implementation plus license plus operations. Years 2 and 3 cost license plus operations.

3-year ROI is total net value divided by total cost. The defaults are 500 employees, $85,000 salary, 15% gain, $250,000 implementation, $80,000 license, $40,000 operations, and adoption of 60%, 85% and 95%.

Reading your results

4 cards show 3-year ROI, payback period, 3-year net value and total 3-year benefit. ROI of 100% or more is labeled Strong return. ROI from 0% to under 100% is Positive return. ROI below 0% is Negative return.

Payback is the first month in which cumulative benefit covers the implementation cost plus monthly license and operations costs. Months 1 to 12 use Year 1 adoption. Months 13 to 36 use Year 2 adoption. If payback is not reached by month 36, the tool shows more than 36 months.

A bar chart and a table show benefit, cost and net value by year. The model counts only the value of time saved. It excludes revenue from AI, risk reduction, error reduction and quality improvements.