AI development ROI calculator
Calculate the cost of missing evidence
Estimate the engineering, audit, and incident-response effort lost when AI-assisted changes cannot be traced from prompt to production.
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Estimated annual opportunity
$100K
recoverable value / year
From evidence automation and risk-based review—not avoided fines or hypothetical breach costs.
Net annual benefit$70K
Value / cost3.3×
Payback3.6 mo
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How the estimate works
This is a directional business case, not a promise of savings. Every operating assumption is editable and calculations happen locally in your browser.
Measure the work
We estimate annual AI-assisted changes from your developer count, adoption rate, and change volume.
Price the time
Engineering hours are valued from fully loaded annual cost using 1,920 working hours per year.
Stay conservative
The recoverable-value factor discounts the modeled opportunity. Regulatory penalties and breach costs are excluded.
Included: evidence reconstruction, avoidable undifferentiated review, incident reconstruction, and recurring compliance preparation.
Not included: regulatory fines, breach losses, revenue effects, productivity gains from AI coding, or the value of risks prevented.
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