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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

8
6 h
32
55 %
45,000
900

Estimated outcome

-€16,939

Net value in year one

Hours recovered per year
1,214 h
Gross annual value
€38,861
Payback period
Not reached in year one
Year-one ROI
-30%

A deterministic model using only the numbers you enter. These are estimates, not a promise of results.

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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.