EVERGENCES / INVESTMENT CASE
AI ROI Calculator
Project
Assumptions & cost scope
Illustrative inputs. Cash / growth allocation: 0%.
Example assumptions are invented for illustration, not client results.
Count shared costs once, in one currency. Operating costs include usage, oversight, maintenance and any additional paid labor.
Scenario labels describe editable assumptions, not forecasts or guaranteed ordering. Adoption is capped at 100%; AI time and project costs use the shown multipliers.
Workflows
Workflow comparison
Before shared costs. Demand caps may leave unused capacity.
Monthly cash flow
Methodology & limitations
Time is not automatically cash.
Monthly hours saved = volume × adoption × (baseline minutes − AI minutes, including review and rework) ÷ 60. Negative hours mean added workload. Only positive hours can be allocated.
Cash savings = positive hours × cash allocation × avoidable hourly cash cost. A loaded salary rate only shows a separate capacity-equivalent value; it never enters cash benefit.
Growth needs time and demand.
Extra units = the lesser of delivery capacity and your additional demand cap. Contribution per unit is after variable delivery costs, not revenue. Cash and growth allocations cannot exceed 100% of the same hours. Unused growth time returns to retained capacity.
Costs are project-level. Ramp is applied before each monthly demand cap. Payback is the first accumulated-cash crossing, assuming uniform accrual within each month. A simple steady-state comparison ignores ramp and is labeled separately.
This is an illustrative, undiscounted planning model, not a forecast or investment recommendation. It excludes tax, financing, staged implementation spend and any unentered costs. Negative saved time is shown as workload, with no assumed additional paid-labor charge. Enter that cash cost explicitly if applicable. Validate adoption, demand, avoidable spend and operating ownership before committing budget. Scenarios are alternatives, not additive benefits.
Projected cash benefit / total cost divides gross modeled cash benefit by implementation plus all operating costs over the selected horizon. It is not net ROI, MOIC or a guaranteed return. Capacity is excluded; zero cost makes the multiple undefined.
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Savings realization
Reconcile the plan with reviewed evidence.
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Guide & safeguards
A faster workflow is useful. It becomes cash savings only when spending actually changes. Track the original business case against what happened—without counting the same benefit twice.
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- Fix the baseline
- Record what changed
- Separate cash from capacity
- Review the evidence
“Realized” here means recorded by you with a dated evidence reference. It is not an independent audit. Forecasts, signed terms, cost avoidance and retained capacity remain separate.