AI Agent ROI Calculator.

Each agent you add comes with everyday work you could hand it, like sorting your email for a Chief of Staff or categorizing transactions for Finance, and you can add tasks of your own. The calculator assumes the agent does every task you tick, so it counts all the hours that task takes today. It adds up those hours for each agent, then subtracts the time someone spends checking that agent's work. Put the time it takes to review and fix the agent's work in those checking hours. What's left is the time freed. A month is 52 weeks divided by 12, or about 4.33 weeks.

Each agent's hours are valued at that agent's hourly cost. Adding up the agents gives the value of that time. An agent joins your team, and its costs, once it has a ticked task. The monthly cost is hosting and maintenance for each agent plus one ChatGPT plan for the whole team. Net monthly gain is the value minus the cost. Payback is the builds, one per agent, divided by the net monthly gain. First-year net is twelve months of net gain minus the builds.

The calculator assumes the agents are working from the first month. It leaves out the time your team spends with us in discovery and the coaching sessions, and anything the agents add beyond the hours, such as faster replies. Checking time is valued at the same hourly cost as the agent's work.

Which ChatGPT plan fits which kind of work is our rule of thumb. OpenAI says which Pro plan includes more usage than another but doesn't publish the limits, so look at your usage after the first month and move up or down a plan if you need to.

The value shown is what those hours cost you today. It turns into money when the hours go to paying work, replace overtime or a contractor, or let you put off a hire. If the freed time just goes unused, you have more capacity but no more cash.

For a business case you can defend, our AI agent ROI worksheet shows how to count only the part that turns into money. For what goes into an agent's price, see what an AI agent costs and our pricing.

Each agent's hourly cost starts from the job that usually does its work. We take that occupation's mean hourly wage across all US industries in May 2025, from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics released May 15, 2026. Then we add benefits at the rate private employers paid for that occupation group, from the BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation released September 9, 2026 (Table 4, June 2026). The hourly cost is the wage times total compensation divided by wages and salaries.

Two matches are our judgment. Quality Assurance uses business operations specialists, because the work is checking documents, spreadsheets and routine operations rather than software. Account Management uses sales representatives of services, the same as Sales.

The benefits ratios use these June 2026 figures for private industry, total compensation and then wages and salaries per hour worked:

• Office and administrative support: $36.73 (CMU2010000220000D) and $25.22 (CMU2020000220000D)
• Management, business, and financial: $88.63 (CMU2010000110000D) and $59.85 (CMU2020000110000D)
• Professional and related: $73.69 (CMU2010000120000D) and $50.98 (CMU2020000120000D)
• Sales and related: $35.85 (CMU2010000210000D) and $26.99 (CMU2020000210000D)

We read every wage and benefits figure from the BLS public data API on October 21, 2026.

The build and hosting figures are our published prices, for each agent: from $1,000 one time and from $200 a month.

OpenAI lists ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month on its pricing page, and ChatGPT Pro 100, Pro 200 and Pro 500 at $100, $200 and $500 a month in its guide to the Pro tiers. We checked both on October 20, 2026.

Every hour in the calculator is a placeholder we picked. A task you tick starts at 4 hours a week, and each agent starts with 1 hour a week of checking. No study gives these figures for your tasks, so replace them with your own.