Tool 02

What it costs, what it returns, and when it pays back.

No benchmarks, no industry averages, no vendor figures. You supply every input from your own payroll and your own quote, and the tool shows its working so a finance reviewer can check it line by line.

Every figure below is yours to set. We supply no benchmarks, because a benchmark from someone else's organisation is the main reason AI business cases are wrong. Use your own payroll and your own vendor quote.

Licences and seats

People with a licence

Cost per seat, per month CAD

Time returned

Hours saved per person, per week

Loaded hourly cost CAD, salary plus overhead

Share of saved time actually redeployed %

Working weeks per year

One-off and ongoing costs

Build, integration and training, one-off CAD

Internal effort per month CAD, your own people

Months before the saving is fully reached

The realisation share matters more than any other input here. Time saved is not money saved unless the hours are redeployed onto work that has value, or unless headcount changes. Setting it to 100 percent produces a number no finance function will accept.