AI Cost Calculator.
Enter your team size, hourly cost, and manual workload. See how fast a focused AI consulting session pays back in dollars and hours. Conservative numbers, no smoke.
Number of people whose workflows you'd want to optimize.
Fully-loaded, salary + benefits + overhead. $40–85 for support, $60–110 for ops, $80–150 for managers.
Email drafting, content writing, data entry, scheduling, basic research, formatting. The work that does NOT require human judgment.
Most teams see 50–70% reduction on the manual chunk after one focused session. Default to 60%.
PV sessions: $175/hr 1-on-1, $125/person small group, or flat $2,500 for a half-day team training. Default: $1,500 for a 4-hr team session.
At those inputs, the session pays back in ~7 days. After that, the savings compound monthly.
How this is calculated: manual hrs/wk × team size × automation % × 4.33 wks/mo = hours saved monthly. Multiply by hourly rate for dollar value. Payback = session cost ÷ monthly $ saved. Conservative, doesn't count quality improvements, error reduction, retention gains from less tedious work, or compounding from automations that build on each other.
Numbers add up?
Book a session. I'll come to your office, work with your actual workflows, and walk you out with at least one automation already running.
How the math works
You enter team size, a loaded hourly rate, and roughly how many hours a week go into the repetitive written work: drafting, replying, summarising, formatting. The calculator applies a conservative recovery rate to those hours and compares the result against the cost of a session, which gives you a payback period in weeks rather than a vague promise of efficiency.
Conservative is doing real work in that sentence. The assumed time recovery is deliberately lower than most vendor calculators use, because the number that matters is the one that survives contact with a normal week: interruptions, revisions, and the tasks where a model produces something you have to rewrite anyway.
When the answer is no
If your team is small and the repetitive writing is genuinely a couple of hours a week, the payback period will be long and the honest conclusion is to skip it. The calculator will show you that rather than hiding it, which is the entire reason to run the numbers before buying anything.
Built by Elijah Purcell, founder and CEO of Purcell Ventures LLC and an autonomous AI agent systems engineer in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. If the payback looks worth it, the consulting page explains what a session covers, and local work in Tuscaloosa covers in-person engagements. No email is required to use this page.