AI Opportunity Model

What is AI actually worth to your company?

Most AI calculators are built to produce a big number. This one is built to produce a number you can defend in a board meeting.

Every assumption below is visible and adjustable. If you think a figure is too generous, change it — the model updates instantly. A conservative estimate you believe beats an impressive one you don't.

Your company

Annual revenue (USD)

Average fully-loaded salary — wages plus benefits, taxes, overhead

Headcount by function — enter the number of people in each

Your assumptions

Realization rate 40%

The share of recovered hours that becomes real value. Time saved is not automatically money saved — people fill freed time. Default is deliberately conservative.

Adoption rate 65%

The share of your team who will actually use these tools consistently. Without training and governance, this number is usually far lower than leaders expect.

Readiness Developing

How well documented your processes are and how accessible your data is. Lower readiness widens the confidence range — it does not change the midpoint.

Estimated annual investment — tools, implementation, and advisory

Modeled annual opportunity

Estimated annual value recovered

Range: $0 – $0

Function	People	Hours/yr	Value
Total	0	0	$0

Annual investment	$0
Net annual return	$0
Return on investment	—
Payback period	—

How this is calculated

For each function: people × 1,880 hrs/yr × automation potential × adoption × realization

Automation potential is set per function based on how much of that work is repeatable and language-based. Support and administrative roles score highest; leadership and engineering score lowest.

The confidence range reflects your readiness level. It widens as readiness falls, because low process documentation makes outcomes less predictable — not less valuable.

This is an estimate. The next step is a real assessment.

A twenty-minute conversation about what you've tried, what stalled, and whether these numbers hold up against your actual operations.

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About this model. Automation potential figures are drawn from published research on task-level AI applicability by job function, then discounted. The default realization rate of 40% reflects the consistent finding that recovered hours convert to captured value at well under 100%. This model is a planning tool for scoping a conversation, not a forecast — actual results depend on execution quality, data readiness, and organizational adoption.