Before
- Manual processing
- 18 hrs/week
- Loaded staff cost
- $62/hr
- Annual cost
- $58,032
Economic Framework
Empirical Outcomes & Commercial ROI
Business performance is not measured in context window sizes or parameter counts. It is measured in gross margin expansion, labor efficiency, process velocity, and payback period.
Quick cost estimator
What is repetitive work costing you today?
This is a simple baseline calculator, not a promised saving. It helps put a dollar value on work that may be worth investigating.
6 staff
Include people who re-enter data, prepare routine paperwork, update spreadsheets or perform repetitive follow-up.
8 hrs/week
Count the repetitive portion of the job, not all of their normal working time.
65 $/hr
Use your best estimate including wages or salary, super and employment overheads.
Current repetitive-work baseline
A rough view of the cost before any automation.
Repetitive hours per year
2,496 hrs
Annual staff cost
$162,240
The full assessment looks at systems and process friction before estimating how much work may genuinely be recoverable. We do not apply a blanket automation percentage.
Want to see which part of that workload may actually be addressable?
Start the assessmentProve the economics
A useful AI project should have a number attached to it.
AITF establishes the current cost, sets a realistic improvement target and measures what happens after implementation. No magic ROI calculator, just assumptions that can be challenged and verified.
Illustrative example
One repetitive process, measured properly
Target after improvement
- Potential time recovered
- 11 hrs/week
- Target reduction
- 61%
- Potential annual value
- $35,464
The implementation decision then depends on build cost, risk, adoption effort and how much of that target can realistically be captured. If the economics do not stack up, we do not recommend the project.