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B2B Software / SaaSUnited Kingdom11-50 engineersScenario - not audited

By HarryPerk · published 2 Nov 2026 · DODONE-MOD-001 revision 1 · engine 0.1.3

Aromatics SaaS company

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Incremental AI cost: £4,392.00 per year. These are two different valuations of the same output gain. Do not add them together. Neither value is a guaranteed minimum or maximum.

Capacity-based value

The cost of the engineer time used for more work. It is not a cash saving.

£70,200.00 per year · ROI 1,498.36%

Revenue-linked value

A hypothetical contribution scenario. It is not a sales forecast.

£167,142.86 per year · ROI 3,705.62%

Inputs - company

Item
Value
Source
Revenue, last completed financial year£12,000,000.00Your figure
Business-as-usual revenue growth0.00%Illustrative, not validated
Incremental contribution margin50.00%Your figure

Inputs - workforce

Item
Value
Source
Engineering FTE (annual average)15Your figure
Licensed seats (annual average)10.5—

Inputs - AI tool costs

Item
Value
Source
Engineers with a paid seat70.00%Illustrative, not validated
Seat price per month£22.00Your figure
Extra usage per active engineer per month£15.00Illustrative, not validated
Implementation, training and governance (year one)£0.00Illustrative, not validated

Inputs - productivity and adoption

Item
Value
Source
Engineering work eligible for AI80.00%Your figure
Net time saved on eligible work20.00%Illustrative, not validated
Active engineers (adoption)60.00%Illustrative, not validated
Released time used for extra output (redeployment)50.00%Illustrative, not validated

Inputs - commercial response

Item
Value
Source
Engineering commercial response65.00%Illustrative, not validated
Commercial diffusion loss25.00%Illustrative, not validated
Downside commercial transmission100.00%Illustrative, not validated

Workforce cohorts

Location
Seniority
FTE
Fully loaded cost (original currency)
FX rate
Rate date
FX source
Loaded cost (GBP)
Capacity benefit
UKjunior0£52,000.001—reporting currency (no conversion)£52,000.00£0.00
UKmid7.5£78,000.001—reporting currency (no conversion)£78,000.00£28,080.00
UKsenior7.5£117,000.001—reporting currency (no conversion)£117,000.00£42,120.00

Incremental annual AI cost

Item
Value
Licences£2,772.00
Additional usage£1,620.00
Implementation, training and governanceExcluded (set to 0) - not a claim that deployment is free£0.00
Total incremental AI cost£4,392.00

Productivity chain

Item
Value
Active engineers (annual average)9
Released time per active engineer16.0000%
Theoretical output uplift per active engineer19.0476%
Released baseline time, whole workforce9.6000%
Realised workforce output uplift5.7143%
Adverse output change (stress channel)0.0000%

Capacity-based value

Item
Value
Capacity benefit (cost-equivalent of redeployed time)Not a cash or payroll saving£70,200.00
Net value after AI cost£65,808.00
Capacity economic ROI1,498.36%
Benefit / cost15.98×

Revenue-linked contribution value (scenario)

Item
Value
Forecast BAU revenue (no AI)£12,000,000.00
Incremental revenue scenarioScenario, not a sales forecast£334,285.71
Incremental contribution benefit£167,142.86
Net value after AI cost£162,750.86
Commercial scenario ROI3,705.62%
Benefit / cost38.06×
Effective commercial response e × (1 − d)48.7500%

Diagnostics (calculated by the model, not audited)

Item
Value
Engineering-addressable contribution per FTE£260,000.00
BAU revenue at which the two valuations are equalNeither valuation is a fixed minimum or maximum£5,040,000.00

Sensitivity - net time saved on eligible work ±10 points

Scenario
Shift
Capacity benefit
Capacity ROI
Commercial benefit
Commercial ROI
Conservative-10%£35,100.00699.18%£76,304.351,637.35%
Base0%£70,200.001,498.36%£167,142.863,705.62%
Optimistic10%£105,300.002,297.54%£277,105.266,209.32%

Reproducibility

Reproduced exactly by the current engine (0.1.3). Input hash 8459065fb9cce516…, output hash eeace6463a136d4d….

  • Capacity-based and revenue-linked values are two alternative valuations of the same output gain. Never add them.
  • Neither valuation is a guaranteed minimum or maximum; which one is higher depends on the inputs.
  • Capacity value is the cost-equivalent of redeployed engineer time, not a payroll or cash saving.
  • Revenue-linked value is a hypothetical scenario based on stated assumptions, not a causal sales forecast.
  • Illustrative estimate - not an observed financial result until supported by evidence.
  • Dodone Model v1 is a controlled draft for independent methodological audit; it has not been audited.
  • One 12-month period; a new AI tool compared with no tool. Not valid for replacing an existing AI tool.