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The AI Business Case Calculator

Two numbers decide whether an AI project is worth doing: what the workflow is worth, and what it costs to run at volume. This gives you both in five minutes.

Step 1

The work today

Workflow name

People who do this work

Hours per week each

Loaded cost per hour ($)

Share of the step AI can take (%)

Advanced What it costs to run Tokens, prices, platform and build. Sensible defaults are filled in; open this when you have your own.

Runs per month

Tokens per run

Price per million tokens ($)

Monthly platform cost ($)

Monthly maintenance ($)

One-time build cost ($)

Value is the hours in scope each month, times the loaded cost per hour, times the share of the step AI can take. Run cost is tokens plus platform plus maintenance. It is the same arithmetic as Forecast, Measure, Optimize, reduced to what a CEO has time to fill in.