AI Stack Economics
Where is the AI money going, what value is it creating, and what should be scaled, optimized, or stopped — modeled from one workflow to the whole enterprise.
Model a company
Type a company name or ticker — the calculator pre-populates from its public filings (revenue → archetype, sector → vertical, headcount → modeled users) as a starting point you can edit.
Modeled enterprise program: $15.5M/yr AI spend across 8,562 seats (26% of the workforce) creating $24.7M/yr in modeled value — 45% ROI on year-one TCO. Operations leads on modeled net value.
Modeled, not observed — the whole view extrapolates this scenario's per-seat economics across 33,333 employees. Edit any function's adoption or intensity below; drill in to model one function's program in full.
AI P&L by function
Each row is that org's modeled program: seats = headcount × adoption; cost = its usage + a seat-share of the shared platform; value = the productivity lever at its scale. Adoption and intensity are editable modeled defaults.
| Function | Headcount | Adoption | Intensity | Seats | Cost / yr | Value / yr | Net / yr | ROI | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Operations COO | 18,333 | 4,583 | $5.78M | $12.70M | $6.92M | 120% | |||
Sales CRO | 3,000 | 1,350 | $2.56M | $3.74M | $1.18M | 46% | |||
Marketing CMO | 833 | 417 | $880K | $1.15M | $275K | 31% | |||
People / HR CHRO | 467 | 210 | $355K | $583K | $228K | 64% | |||
Corporate / CEO office CEO | 667 | 334 | $776K | $924K | $149K | 19% | |||
Legal & compliance GC / CCO | 233 | 93 | $237K | $258K | $22K | 9% | |||
Finance CFO | 500 | 275 | $756K | $762K | $5.9K | 1% | |||
Technology CIO / CTO | 2,000 | 1,300 | $4.13M | $3.60M | $-523K | -13% |
- · No workforce split on this scenario — modeled a 33,333-employee enterprise at typical functional shares (type your company in the quick start, or edit headcounts, to replace it).
- · Per-function value is the productivity lever only (seats × hours saved × loaded rate); the configured use case's structural levers (process cost, revenue, risk, cycle time, retired tech) are counted once at enterprise level.
- · Shared platform, governance, and FinOps program costs are counted once and allocated by seat share; each function adds only its variable usage cost.
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