About the AI ROI Calculator

The PyratechAI ROI Calculator is a free, deterministic tool for building the economic case behind an AI initiative. It produces a defensible three-year view of ROI, payback, benefit-cost ratio and net value from the same inputs finance would ask for: initial investment, annual recurring cost, productivity value (headcount × loaded cost × hours saved), direct cost reduction, revenue contribution at gross margin, risk avoidance, adoption rate and value-realization rate. The math is fully transparent and matches the formulas published on our Methodology page.

Why productivity is discounted twice

Theoretical productivity is not the same as realized financial value. Two multipliers make the number honest: adoption rate — the share of intended users who actually use the tool — and value-realization rate — the share of theoretical benefit that becomes a hard cost or measurable outcome. Diffuse "time saved across a team" rarely converts to a headcount reduction; a specific redeployment plan or a hard cost removal does. Applying both multipliers separates a credible business case from a spreadsheet fantasy.

What the Calculator does not do

The Calculator computes economics — it does not make the investment decision. For that, use the AI Investment Analyzer, which layers Investment Attractiveness (across six dimensions) and Evidence Confidence (weighted by decision sensitivity) on top of the economics and returns one of five explicit recommendations — FUND, PILOT, REMEDIATE, DEFER or STOP — with a full Decision Path.

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Your inputs stay in your browser via localStorage. Nothing is transmitted to a server unless you explicitly save the assessment to a free account. Nothing is used to train any AI model. Every formula is deterministic — the same inputs produce the same outputs every time. For a full board-ready business case, see the $149 AI Investment Toolkit — editable Excel, Word and PowerPoint templates that mirror the same methodology.