ROI calculator · For your finance review

Your numbers.
Our arithmetic. No promises.

Every vendor ROI number is suspicious, including ours — so this calculator shows its formula, uses your inputs, and gives you three scenarios instead of one confident lie. The result prints as a one-page business case your finance team can interrogate.

Inputs
Results · Expected scenarioSales & SDR
hours reclaimed / month
gross savings / year
net value / year, after plan cost
payback period
Three scenarios, because one number is a sales tactic
Conservative
40% of repetitive work
Expected
60% of repetitive work
Optimistic
75% of repetitive work

Automation share is the fraction of stated repetitive hours AI coworkers absorb. Headline results use the Expected case; your pilot's job is to find out which column you're in.

See what this looks like in practice
The arithmetic, in fullno black box
loaded hourly cost = salary × 1.30 ÷ 2,080
hours reclaimed / yr = people × repetitive h/wk × automation share × 52
gross savings / yr = hours reclaimed × loaded hourly cost
net value / yr = gross savings − plan cost × 12
payback = annual plan cost ÷ gross savings, in weeks
What this deliberately leaves out: revenue lift from faster follow-up, error reduction, and the work that currently doesn't get done at all. Those are real, but they belong in your pilot results, not a vendor's calculator. Reclaimed hours are capacity — whether they become savings or throughput is your call.