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🤖 AI ROI & Build-vs-Buy Calculator

Build a defensible business case for adopting generative AI. Enter your seats, hours saved per user per week, loaded hourly cost and license price, then add implementation cost, expected adoption and a risk/rework discount. The tool returns annual gross productivity value, net benefit, ROI %, payback in months and a 3-year NPV — plus a side-by-side build-vs-buy comparison. Word export and a clear results panel.

Adoption inputs
Build-vs-buy: internal build option

⚠️ This is a directional business-case model for budgeting and prioritization only — not a guarantee of returns, an accounting figure, or investment advice. Productivity savings are only realized if freed hours are reinvested into real output or capacity; the risk/rework discount exists because measured time savings (e.g. ~26–55% on targeted tasks in controlled GenAI studies) rarely convert 1:1 to bottom-line value. NPV uses a simple annual discounted cash-flow over 3 years. Pair this with a controlled pilot, a value-tracking baseline, and governance under NIST AI RMF 1.0 (MAP/MEASURE/MANAGE) and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 before committing budget.