AI use case economics
- Value GBP 126,396 · Cost GBP 295,200 · Net -GBP 168,804 · Break-even use 107.4%.
Executive Intelligence · Technology and Innovation
AI Adoption and ROI Monitor
Shows which AI features are used (from this product's own usage records), what providers receive (linked to the AI provider disclosure) and the benefit measured.
Demonstration: Meridian Freight Group (fictional) · Freight and logistics. Fictional data and a scripted answer.
The situation
- Organisation
- Meridian Freight Group (fictional)
- Who is asking
- Chief digital officer
- Industry
- Freight and logistics
- What happened
- Several AI pilots are running, and the board has asked whether they are paying for themselves.
The question asked
Do our AI use cases pay for themselves once licence, support and adoption are counted?
What it reads, and who can see the result
- Pilot usage and cost data exportLicences, usage and time recorded.
- Value assumptions documentTime saved per use and its cost.
- Reads
- Aggregated usage, licence cost and the value assumptions.
- Does not read
- The content people entered or their individual usage.
- Permission
- Digital office access to aggregates.
- Who sees it
- The chief digital officer and the CFO.
Try it
Change the assumptions. Every result and the answer below are recomputed from them, and a warning appears when a result crosses a stated limit.
- Active users
- 147
- Annual value of time saved
- GBP 126,39646 working weeks a year.
- Annual cost
- GBP 295,200Licence 360 per person and a support team of 180,000.
- Net annual value
- -GBP 168,804
- Weekly use needed to break even
- 107.4%
At this level of use the licences and support cost more than the time they save.
The answer
Simulated answer. Written for this fictional case, not produced by a live model. Only the figures in it are computed, from what you decided above.
At 46% weekly use the net annual value is -GBP 168,804; break-even needs 107.4% weekly use.
147 active people saving 35 minutes a week is worth GBP 126,396 a year [S1][S2], against a cost of GBP 295,200 for licences and support. What decides the result is how many licensed people actually use it, not how many have it.
Time saved is only value if the time is used for something: a saving the organisation cannot redeploy is a nice feeling, not a return. The CFO should ask where the saved minutes go.
Relies on: S1 · Pilot usage and licence costS2 · Value assumptions, agreed with finance
No approval is needed for this result: it is read-only insight, and nothing consequential happens because of it.
What it produces
Limits of this example
- Minutes saved are self-reported or sampled, not measured.
- Quality improvements and risk reduction are not valued.
- This is a scripted demonstration on fictional data. No model was called and no real organisation, person or result is shown.
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