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AI Vendor ROI Calculator
Model the real cost and payback period before you sign a vendor contract.
Vendor pricing pages rarely show the full cost of adoption: implementation time, staff training, and the internal hours it takes to get a tool actually used. This spreadsheet is a working model for estimating the real cost and realistic payback period of an AI tool before you sign anything.
Drop in your own assumptions and it will project a payback timeline you can bring into a budget conversation, not just a vendor's promised ROI number.
What’s included
- A pre-built cost model covering licensing, implementation, and staff time
- A payback-period calculator you can adjust for your own assumptions
- A comparison tab for evaluating two vendors side by side