Economics of AI Team Calculator

This page reproduces the interactive calculators from the React draft in plain JavaScript so they work inside this Jekyll site.

1) Team Cost

Headcount

Data scientists

ML engineers

Data engineers

PM / AI leads

Manager allocation

Loaded Costs

DS cost

ML Eng cost

Data Eng cost

PM / AI lead cost

Manager cost

Overhead

Infra overhead (%)

Fixed API / platform spend

Payroll

Overhead + infra

Annual cost

Monthly burn

Daily cost

2) Internal ROI

Assumptions

Users served

Loaded hourly rate

Hours saved per user / week

Adoption rate (%)

Realization factor (%)

Outputs

Monthly hours unlocked

Monthly value

Break-even status

3x threshold

5x threshold

3) Customer Lift

Assumptions

Monthly customers / sessions

Traffic impacted (%)

Baseline conversion (%)

Expected relative lift (%)

Contribution per conversion

Outputs

Impacted traffic

Added conversions

Monthly value

Value / cost multiple

4) Portfolio Math

Assumptions

Initiative success rate (%)

Major initiatives / year

Maintenance drag (%)

Outputs

Adjusted annual cost

Successful initiatives

Break-even / success

3x / success

5x / success

5) Ramp vs Reality (12-month summary)

Assumptions

Expected peak monthly value

Actual peak monthly value

Expected ramp (months)

Actual ramp (months)

Monthly decay after peak (%)

Outputs

12-mo cost

12-mo expected value

12-mo actual value

Cumulative gap

This version includes the same underlying economics logic as the JSX draft, with a compact summary instead of the React chart.