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AI Pilot Cost Calculator

A pilot that works but never becomes the way your team works still costs money every month. Enter your own figures to see the cost of the stall so far and the cost of waiting longer. The defaults show an illustrative example of a 12-person marketing team, not client data.

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Your figures

Per month, 0 to 1,000,000

Agency, freelancer or internal development, 0 to 10,000,000

Hours, 0 to 10,000

Per hour, 0 to 1,000

Hours, 0 to 10,000

Percent, 0 to 100

Months, 1 to 60

Months, 0 to 36

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Your result

Illustrative example of a 12-person marketing team, not client data.

Cost of the stall so far$107,700
Cost per extra month$10,300
Cost if you wait 6 more months$61,800

Where the cost sits

The three priced layers
  • Direct spend$31,200
  • Team time$30,600
  • Cost of delay$45,900
Direct spend: build plus licences. Team time: hours on the pilot at the loaded rate. Cost of delay: freed capacity weighted by the likelihood of scaling.

Not priced here

  • Organisational cost: AI fatigue and lost credibility for the next initiative.
  • Risk cost: shadow AI growing while the official path stalls.

The real figure is higher.

This calculator prices the cost of standing still. The AI Marketing ROI Calculator prices the upside of scaling. Together they feed a business case for your CFO.

Open the AI Marketing ROI Calculator

How the figures are calculated

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