Price your AI rollout.

The AI ROI Calculator turns labor savings, retained revenue and time to value into payback plus 90-day, 1-year and 5-year ROI. Fill in what you know; partial inputs still get you an answer.

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Payback period

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Cost reduction

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Industry avg: 20–35% for eng teams
%
Separate pool from automatable work
%
McKinsey: 25–40% fewer incidents
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$
%
Tooling consolidation, fewer point tools

Cost savings appear here as you fill these in.

Revenue enhancement

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%
The base churn applies against
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Conservative: 5–10%. Aggressive: 15–25%
$
Upsells, new lines, productivity growth

Revenue gain appears here as you fill these in.

Implementation

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One-time: setup, migration, eng hours
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Annual licensing / subscriptions
mo
Optimized: 2–4 mo
mo
Traditional AI projects: 12–18 mo

Year-one cost appears here as you fill these in.

Payback periodMonths until cumulative benefit covers the total investment, including the time-to-value ramp. Under 12 months is strong.—

Projected ROI

90-dayROI at three months. Usually negative when value lands later, most return comes after the ramp.
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1-yearNet return at 12 months: (year-one benefit minus total cost) over total cost. The headline for most business cases.
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5-yearYear one ramped, years two to five at full benefit, against five years of platform cost. Assumes flat benefit, no team growth or compounding.
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Annual benefitTotal yearly value: labor + rework + infrastructure + compliance savings, plus retained churn revenue and new AI revenue.
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Acceleration value: Set your time to value and a traditional baseline to see what reaching production sooner is worth.

The model, in four moves.

Distinct benefit pools, churn applied to a base rate, and a ramp before any value lands.

  1. Cost savings

    Labor, rework, infrastructure and compliance, each from its own pool.

  2. Revenue gain

    ARR × churn × the churn reduction, plus new AI revenue.

  3. After the ramp

    Benefit only accrues once the time to value has passed.

  4. Against cost

    Payback month, then ROI at 90 days, one year and five years.

Every assumption, in the open.

The formulas are the claim. Each one is written out here, and the summary shows what your inputs make of them.

Cost savings

Labor is team size × salary × the share of automatable work. Rework is team size × salary × time lost to rework × the reduction. Infrastructure is spend × reduction; compliance savings add as entered. Automatable work and rework are separate pools, so nothing counts twice.

Revenue gain

Retained revenue is ARR × your current churn × the churn reduction, so the reduction applies to the churn you have, not to all of ARR. New AI revenue adds on top.

Time to value

Benefit only starts after the time to value: year one counts 12 minus that many months of it. Platform cost runs from month one.

Payback and ROI

Payback is the first month cumulative benefit covers the implementation plus platform cost to date. Each ROI horizon uses the cost of that horizon. The 5-year view ramps year one, holds years two to five at full benefit, and assumes no team growth or compounding.

Acceleration value

Monthly benefit × the months between your time to value and a traditional rollout (15 months when left blank). A one-time figure, never added to the annual benefit.

What it is not

Estimates are based on the inputs you provide and industry benchmarks. Results are illustrative and not a guarantee of financial outcomes. Confirm with your finance team before making investment decisions.

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AI IMPLEMENTATION ROI — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Generated with the hoop Labs ROI Calculator (hoop.dev/labs/ai-roi-calculator)

ANNUAL BENEFIT
  Cost savings ........... $0
    Labor automation ..... $0
    Rework / incidents ... $0
    Infrastructure ....... $0
    Compliance ........... $0
  Revenue gain ........... $0
    Retained (churn) ..... $0
    New AI revenue ....... $0
  Total annual benefit ... $0

RETURN
  Add implementation and platform cost to project ROI and payback.

Estimates are illustrative, based on the inputs provided and industry
benchmarks. Confirm with your finance team before investment decisions.
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