Data and AI ROI Calculator
A guided worksheet for building a credible, defensible ROI case for a data or AI initiative — before you ask for budget.
Most data and AI business cases don't survive scrutiny.
They either wildly overstate value to win approval, or skip the ROI conversation entirely and hope the results speak for themselves later. Both approaches erode trust with the people who hold the budget.
Benefit estimates are optimistic guesses with no shown work
Costs only include the visible ones — not change management or maintenance
No consistent way to compare one initiative's ROI case to another's
Every input shown, every assumption logged.
A guided worksheet that builds your ROI case line by line, with every assumption visible and adjustable.
Cost Inputs
Build, run, and change-management costs, guided line by line.
Benefit Categories
Revenue, cost savings, risk reduction, and speed, scored separately.
Confidence Weighting
Adjusting benefit estimates by how certain you actually are.
Payback & ROI Outputs
Automatic payback period and ROI calculation from your inputs.
Assumptions Log
A transparent record of where every number came from.
Built for the people who own this problem
Requesting budget for a new initiative and needing a credible case.
Evaluating data investment requests against a consistent standard.
Comparing ROI cases across a portfolio of competing initiatives.
Building the business case for a client's next investment.
Three steps to put it to work
Fill in your costs
Work through build, run, and change-management costs by category.
Estimate your benefits
Use the confidence-weighting guide to keep benefit estimates honest.
Use the outputs
Take the automatic ROI and payback figures straight into your business case.
Build a defensible ROI case before you ask for budget.
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