Adjust the inputs to your business. The calculator estimates annual time savings, total dollar value, and the payback period on a typical AI implementation — based on benchmarks from real B2B engagements.
About these numbers: The default values assume a 10-person knowledge-work team with average loaded cost of $110K, 30% AI-replaceable work, and 60% realistic capture rate after proper implementation. Adjust the sliders to model your specific business. The calculator assumes 1,872 working hours per FTE per year (52 weeks × 36 productive hours).
The calculator multiplies four things: team size × loaded annual cost × % AI-replaceable work × capture rate. That gives the dollar value of time saved annually. The payback period divides your AI investment by the monthly savings rate.
The two variables that swing the output the most are capture rate (how much of the theoretical AI-replaceable work you actually capture in practice) and % AI-replaceable (varies significantly by role — content production teams hit 50%+, while customer-facing reps closer to 20%).
The default capture rate of 60% reflects a properly-implemented deployment with shared Claude Projects, system prompts, and team training. Without those, capture rate drops to 15–25% — which is why most companies that "deploy AI" produce no measurable return. See why most AI implementations fail for that pattern.