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AI Time-Savings & ROI Calculator

Size the opportunity: estimate the hours and euros practical AI could save your team this year.

AI Time-Savings & ROI Calculator

Estimate the hours and money practical AI could save your team - with a human still in the loop. Move the sliders; the numbers update live.

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Assumes ~46 working weeks a year and realistic, reviewed AI use - not full automation. An estimate to size the opportunity, not a guarantee.

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About this tool

How the AI Time-Savings & ROI calculator works

This calculator sizes the opportunity from practical, everyday AI - the reviewed, human-in-the-loop kind, not full automation. It turns five simple inputs into an honest estimate of the hours and money your team could save in a year.

The maths, in plain terms

It multiplies your team size by the hours each person spends on repetitive tasks and the share of that work AI can realistically assist. That gives weekly hours saved, which it annualises over about 46 working weeks, values at your loaded hourly cost, and then nets off your AI tooling cost. You get net annual saving, the equivalent in freed-up working days, and the return on your AI spend.

Where AI actually saves SMEs time

  • Drafting first versions of emails, proposals and content
  • Summarising documents, calls and research
  • Answering repetitive customer and internal questions
  • Cleaning, sorting and reformatting data
  • Translating and localising material

Reading the numbers honestly

Treat the output as a well-informed estimate to guide a decision, not a promise. Real savings depend on picking the right tasks and keeping a person accountable for quality. Set the “share AI can assist” slider to a realistic level - for most teams that is well under half to start.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Q.How is the ROI calculated?

Weekly hours saved = people x hours on repetitive tasks x the share AI can assist. That is annualised over about 46 weeks, valued at your hourly cost, minus your AI tooling cost, to give net annual saving and return on spend.

Q.Are these savings realistic?

They are an estimate. Real results depend on choosing the right workflows and keeping human review. The calculator deliberately models assisted work, not full automation.

Q.Which tasks should I automate first?

Start with high-volume, low-risk, repetitive work - drafting, summarising, data tidying and answering common questions - where a person still checks the output.

Q.What should I not automate?

Anything high-stakes or regulated - final decisions about people, or legal, medical and financial advice - should not be left to AI. Our AI-for-business service helps you draw the line.

Like what the numbers say?

We help you capture that saving safely - the right workflows, the right guardrails, a human in the loop.