Value calculator
What is the unfashionable number?
A conservative model of hours spent on repetitive knowledge work, versus a sequenced recovery. Not a quote. Not a guarantee. A number you can argue with.
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Annual drag
$3,052,320
Labor on repetitive work plus current AI spend · 88 people · 33,792 hours / year · 48-week year
- Labor on repetitive work
- $2,872,320
- Current AI tools & pilots
- $180,000
- Conservative recovery, 15% of the labor line
- $430,848
- If sequenced well, 30% of the labor line
- $861,696
- Agentive audit (flat)
- $7,500
- Typical Big 4 diagnostic
- $250,000+
Recovery is modelled against labor only. Your current AI spend is shown because it belongs in the drag, not because we assume you will get it back; that depends on what those contracts turn out to be worth. Fifteen percent of labor is what we will defend in a room: one or two use cases, a named owner, change on the calendar. The audit exists to find those cases, or to tell you they are not there yet.
Directional only. Not a proposal, forecast, or guarantee. Actual recovery depends on data, ownership, and whether anyone will change Thursday.
Next step
If the number is uncomfortable, that is the point.
A discovery call will tell you whether an audit is warranted, or whether you should wait.