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Is your AI actually making money?
Most businesses can tell you what they spend on AI. Far fewer can tell you what it produced. This estimates one honest number from your own inputs, and tells you exactly what it leaves out.
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AI ROI Scorecard calculator
Method
How this number is calculated
One formula, four inputs, and no hidden weighting. Annual value of reclaimed capacity equals people in scope, times hours per person per week, times the share of that work plausibly automated, times 46 productive weeks, times your fully loaded hourly cost. That is the whole model. It runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.
What it counts
- Hours currently spent by named people on one identifiable workflow, the kind you could evidence from a calendar or a timesheet.
- The share of those hours a well-configured system could plausibly absorb, which is a number you choose and should choose conservatively.
- Your fully loaded hourly cost, salary plus overhead divided by working hours, rather than a billable rate.
- Forty-six productive weeks, not fifty-two, because nobody works fifty-two.
What it deliberately excludes
Implementation cost. Licence and usage fees. Training time. The hours your team will spend reviewing AI output, which are real and are never zero. Any revenue effect, because reclaimed capacity only becomes revenue if the freed hours are redeployed into work that earns.
It also excludes every industry benchmark and every published average. A benchmark is somebody else's business. The point of this tool is to get you to a number you can defend from your own records, which is the same standard we hold ourselves to in an engagement.
Where it overstates
Three places, reliably. If the automation share is set optimistically, the whole result inflates in a straight line. If the freed hours are not redeployed, the capacity is real and the money is not. And if the workflow needs heavy human review, the net saving is a fraction of the gross. Treat the output as the ceiling of a conversation, not its conclusion.
Questions
What people ask about this tool
What does the AI ROI Scorecard actually calculate?
One number: the annual value of the capacity an AI implementation could reclaim, if it absorbs the share of the work you tell it to assume. It multiplies people in scope by hours per person per week by that share, then by 46 productive weeks and your fully loaded hourly cost.
Is the result a forecast of profit?
No. Reclaimed capacity is not profit. It becomes profit only if the freed hours are redeployed to work that earns, or if headcount cost actually falls. The scorecard does not model implementation cost, licence fees, training time or the hours your team spends reviewing the output.
Why 46 weeks rather than 52?
Because nobody works 52 productive weeks. Forty-six is a deliberately conservative allowance for holiday, sick leave and the weeks where the workflow does not run. If you want a smaller number, lower the automation share rather than the weeks.
Do I have to give you my email to see the result?
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser, the result appears as you move the sliders, and nothing is sent anywhere.
Turn the estimate into a plan.
A self-scored estimate is a starting point. On a call we look at your real spend and your real workflow, and tell you which part of that number is actually reachable.