Free AI business tool

What could AI save your business?

Estimate the time, financial value and potential return of automating a business process with AI.

Use the calculator to build an initial business case before investing in an AI project.

AI ROI Calculator

Estimate the business value of AI automation.

Enter a few numbers about the process you are considering automating. The calculator estimates the time and financial value that AI could create.

How many people regularly spend time on this process?

Estimate how much time each person currently spends on it.

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Use the approximate fully-loaded hourly cost of the employee.

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Include development, integration and initial implementation.

Estimated impact

Annual value created

€52,000

Hours saved per week

20

Hours saved per year

1,040

First-year net value

€37,000

First-year ROI

246.7%

Estimated payback period

3.5 months

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This calculator provides an indicative estimate. Actual AI savings depend on implementation quality, adoption, process complexity and the amount of work that can realistically be automated.

How do you calculate AI ROI?

The potential value of AI automation depends on how much time a process currently consumes, the cost of the people performing it and the proportion of that work that can realistically be automated. This calculator uses those inputs to estimate annual value and compares it with the expected implementation cost.

What can AI automation actually save?

AI can reduce the amount of manual work involved in areas such as customer support, document processing, data entry, reporting, research, content workflows and internal operations. The biggest opportunities are usually repetitive processes where employees spend significant amounts of time on predictable work.

AI ROI is more than saving employee hours

Time savings are only one part of the business case. AI can also increase capacity, improve response times, reduce errors and allow teams to focus on higher-value work. Those benefits can be harder to quantify but may be more valuable than the direct labour savings.

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