What it calculates
Employees × fully burdened salary × assumed efficiency gain. Hours use 1,950 annual hours per employee.
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Adjust team size, fully burdened salary and an assumed efficiency gain to estimate gross capacity value. The result is a transparent scenario for discussion, not a promise of savings or return on investment.
- Transparent formula
- Adjustable assumptions
- No guaranteed savings or ROI
What it can indicate
The gross equivalent value of capacity that could be redirected if the assumed gain were achieved across the selected population.
What it does not include
Implementation cost, adoption, ramp-up, model usage, risk, downtime, tax, cash conversion or the quality of work recovered.
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Explore the gross capacity implied by an assumed efficiency gain. This transparent scenario is a starting hypothesis, not a forecast, saving, or guaranteed return.
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Choose an assumption you can test against a named workflow and a measured baseline. The tool does not supply an industry benchmark.
Illustrative annual capacity scenario
Gross salary-equivalent capacity
£300,000
Employees × fully burdened salary × assumed efficiency gain. It excludes implementation, operation, review, risk, ramp-up, and whether capacity can be converted into cash or useful work.
Potential hours reallocated
14,625
If the selected assumption is achieved
Theoretical FTE equivalent
8 FTEs
Not a headcount or cash-saving forecast
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Interpretation guide
A capacity estimate is not a cash saving
Recovered time creates value only when a feasible AI intervention changes the workflow and the organisation can redirect that capacity productively.
Use several assumptions, including a deliberately conservative case. Then identify where the gain would arise, who would change their behaviour and which operational measure could verify it.
A complete business case should deduct implementation and ongoing costs, account for adoption and ramp-up, quantify material risks and distinguish cash savings from capacity, service quality or revenue effects.
Start with the decision, not the technology
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We can help map the process, establish a baseline, test a bounded intervention and distinguish a plausible operational benefit from an attractive spreadsheet result.