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What is AI worth to your company — and what makes it true?

Most ROI calculators give you one flattering number and no provenance. This one gives you a defensible range, the published evidence behind every figure, and a quarterly versioned history you can audit. Two lenses — AI investment and people investment — because the research says the returns live in the pairing.

Your company

Defaults reflect a mid-market profile. Every output is a range, on purpose.

Global baseline: only 20% of employees are engaged (Gallup, 2026). Mid-market firms routinely have 60+ points of headroom.

Capped at 30% on principle: no peer-reviewed causal return exists yet for financial-wellbeing programs — this slider is labeled directional in the output, and that honesty is the point.

Want to present this?

Your numbers generate a board-ready briefing — the investment case, the architecture gap, and every figure cited to its source.

The link reproduces your exact settings — share it with a colleague to build consensus before the meeting. Nothing is stored on our servers.

The honest number

Uplift is applied only to AI-addressable work — never to total payroll.

Show the math & sources

This model estimates productivity-denominated value and selected human-capital effects. It does not capture revenue innovation, risk reduction, customer-experience gains, or implementation-quality variance — which is precisely why the number is a conversation starter, not a guarantee. Methodology and full citations: see evidence ledger below.

The evidence ledger

Every figure in the calculator traces to a published source, graded by tier: T1 peer-reviewed experiments · T2 large-N institutional research · T3 secondary, flagged. Contested findings stay in — labeled. Organized by the five pillars of the AI Transition Maturity Model.