ESTIMATE THE VALUE

Is your system investment paying off?

Build an estimate from your team’s work, investment and AI usage. Start with the editable example, replace it with measured numbers, then review the tradeoffs.

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Your team

Describe the work your team delivers. These are example assumptions, not measured results.

Teams

Annual features per team

Patterns per feature

Hours per new pattern

Blended hourly rate ($)

Refine adoption, reuse and uncertainty

Adoption (%)

Reusable work (%)

Time saved on reused work (%)

Time converted to productive work (%)

Confidence in positive benefits (%)

Use a typical year. Reuse savings cover work performed with your design system; additional AI tasks are counted separately.

LIVE ESTIMATE

-$39,274 in the first year

Potential net value after initial investment and ongoing costs.

Where the value comes from

System reuse$15,365

AI after review and rework$31,920

Maintenance-$24,000

AI tools and usage-$2,560

404 potential system hours and 840 net AI hours annually, before recapture and confidence adjustments.

Monthly API token cost$13