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AI ROI Calculator
Most AI business cases fail on arithmetic, not ambition. Enter the real shape of a process and see the hours it consumes, the value recovering them is worth, and how long the investment takes to pay back.
Your current situation
12
8 h
35 €
50 %
30,000 €
600 €
Estimated outcome
€40,080
Net value in year one
- Hours recovered per year
- 2,208 h
- Gross annual value
- €77,280
- Payback period
- 5.1 months
- Year-one ROI
- 108%
A deterministic model using only the numbers you enter. These are estimates, not a promise of results.
How the model works
The calculator is deterministic. It multiplies people by weekly hours across a 46-week working year, applies the share of work that can realistically be automated, values the recovered hours at your loaded cost, then subtracts implementation and run costs.
- Automatable share
- Rarely 100%. Exceptions, escalations and review keep people in the loop, which is why 40–60% is a more defensible planning assumption for document-heavy work.
- Run cost
- Model usage, integration maintenance and the human review layer. Omitting it is the single most common reason AI business cases overstate return.
- What it does not do
- It does not price revenue upside, risk reduction or quality gains. Those belong in a full business case, not a first-pass estimate.