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Business Value Calculator
Model what an AI or automation intervention could be worth, using your own volumes, times and costs. Change any assumption and the result updates.
About this tool: Your numbers, our formula, shown in full. An estimate, not a forecast. The starting values are example assumptions, not data from a client. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
Estimated outcome
Net annual benefit
£53,280
- Payback
- 9.0 months
- 3-year net return
- £119,840
- Staff hours released a year
- 1,440
- Errors prevented a year
- 360
If the time saving is only half what you assumed, the net annual benefit is £30,240.
Show the working
- Items a year = 2,000 × 12 = 24,000
- Hours today = 24,000 × 6 min ÷ 60 = 2,400
- Time value = 2,400 h × 60% × £32 = £46,080
- Error value = 24,000 × 3% × 50% × £45 = £16,200
- Net annual benefit = £62,280 − £9,000 running cost = £53,280
- 3-year net return = £53,280 × 3 − £40,000 = £119,840