AI ROI calculator
Is this AI use case paying back, and should you scale it, fix it or stop it? Enter one use case and get payback in months, three-year value and a recommendation.
Open the calculatorWhat it works out
You enter the baseline for one process: how often the task happens, how long it takes and how often it goes wrong. Then what changes with AI, how confident you are in each kind of value, and the one-off and running costs. Amounts can be in rupees, pounds or dollars.
It returns the value per month, the running cost, payback in months and net value over three years. It shows each at half the adoption you planned and at one and a half times, because most AI cases live or die on whether people actually use it.
Scale, fix or stop
- Scale when it pays back within 12 months at the adoption you planned, and still comes out ahead over three years at half that adoption.
- Fix when it pays back within 36 months at planned adoption but not at half. Fix adoption, data or ownership before spending more.
- Stop when it does not pay back within 36 months even at planned adoption.
Why the rules are this strict, and the costs most pilots leave out, are in why your AI pilot is not paying back.
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Tell us who you are and the calculator opens straight away. Your results are shown on screen and emailed to your work address.
Before and after the calculation
Keep each use case in the AI use case register, so you know what you run before you ask whether it pays. If the case depends on data spread across systems that do not talk, start with getting the data ready.
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