From “I can use AI” to “here’s what it returns.”

You’ve built the confidence. This is where it becomes a business case - the time you’re reclaiming, minus the time you spend reviewing what the AI produced, translated into the value your organisation actually counts.

If it were only hours saved you would not need a calculator. More output, produced faster, means more oversight, and that oversight is where your expertise still sits. Put in your own figures, including that one. Walk out with a net number you can take into a board room, in the language they decide in.

Confidence Reclaimed is about capability - using AI well on the work that’s genuinely yours. But capability that stays private stays undervalued. This is where your progress becomes a number your board understands, so the case for your time, your tools and your team makes itself. For the dabbler it’s a destination worth reaching. For the executive it’s where dabbling becomes a decision.

Your numbers

CurrencyPeople affected

Hours reclaimed per person, per week5 hrsThe time AI already saves you on drafting, research and first-pass thinking. If it were as simple as this number, you would not need a calculator.Hours spent reviewing the output, per person, per week2 hrsReading, checking and correcting what the AI produced. More output, produced faster, means more of this, not less. It is where your expertise still sits, and it comes off the saving.Fully-loaded cost per hour$120Salary plus on-costs, divided by hours worked. Use the real loaded cost of the people whose time this frees, not the base rate.

Net hours returned per year

138

for you, after oversight

Net capacity value per year

$16,560

at your loaded cost

Oversight consumes

40%

of the 230 headline hours

Full-time-equivalent

0.1

of net capacity redeployed

Board-ready summary

Reclaiming 5 hours a week with AI, and spending 2 of them reviewing what it produced, returns 138 net hours per person each year. Oversight takes 40% of the headline saving, and that share is the expertise the organisation still relies on. At a fully-loaded cost of $120 an hour, that is $16,560 of net capacity a year, not the $27,600 a hours-saved calculation would claim. The question for the board is not whether the tools cost something; it is who reviews the output, and what the net capacity gets redeployed toward.

Take this to CJ and turn it into a full business case

Every figure here is your own estimate. This is a model to reason with and take into a board conversation, not a benchmark or a promise. Net capacity = hours reclaimed minus hours spent reviewing the output. Assumes 46 working weeks a year.