Public Models / Fictional example
Fictional scenario. The company is invented and every input is an illustrative assumption, not a reported figure or outcome.
These are hypothetical scenarios, not verified AI deployments or observed financial returns. Any resemblance to a real company is unintended.
In the inputs below, every input has the mark “Illustrative, not validated”.
Fictional example: legacy insurance platform
Fictional scenario: invented company, all inputs illustrative assumptions. Not a reported outcome. Shows a negative case: on old code the tool creates rework, so the net time saving is below zero and both values are negative.
Report “Fictional example: legacy insurance platform”
Incremental AI cost: US$486,160.00 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.
-US$835,430.40 per year · ROI -271.84%
Revenue-linked value
A hypothetical contribution scenario. It is not a sales forecast.
-US$323,428.80 per year · ROI -166.53%
Inputs - company
Item | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue, last completed financial year | US$1,200,000,000.00 | Illustrative, not validated |
| Business-as-usual revenue growth | 4.00% | Illustrative, not validated |
| Incremental contribution margin | 35.00% | Illustrative, not validated |
Inputs - workforce
Item | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering FTE (annual average) | 400 | Illustrative, not validated |
| Licensed seats (annual average) | 320 | — |
Inputs - AI tool costs
Item | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Engineers with a paid seat | 80.00% | — |
| Seat price per month | US$39.00 | Illustrative, not validated |
| Extra usage per active engineer per month | US$30.00 | Illustrative, not validated |
| Implementation, training and governance (year one) | US$250,000.00 | Illustrative, not validated |
Inputs - productivity and adoption
Item | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering work eligible for AI | 35.00% | Illustrative, not validated |
| Net time saved on eligible work | -6.00% | 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 response | 10.00% | Illustrative, not validated |
| Commercial diffusion loss | 50.00% | Illustrative, not validated |
| Downside commercial transmission | 60.00% | Illustrative, not validated |
Workforce cohorts
Location | Seniority | FTE | Fully loaded cost (original currency) | FX rate | Rate date | FX source | Loaded cost (USD) | Capacity benefit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | junior | 36 | US$140,000.00 | 1 | — | reporting currency (no conversion) | US$140,000.00 | -US$63,504.00 |
| US | mid | 120 | US$210,000.00 | 1 | — | reporting currency (no conversion) | US$210,000.00 | -US$317,520.00 |
| US | senior | 84 | US$300,000.00 | 1 | — | reporting currency (no conversion) | US$300,000.00 | -US$317,520.00 |
| MX | junior | 24 | US$38,000.00 | 1 | — | reporting currency (no conversion) | US$38,000.00 | -US$11,491.20 |
| MX | mid | 80 | US$60,000.00 | 1 | — | reporting currency (no conversion) | US$60,000.00 | -US$60,480.00 |
| MX | senior | 56 | US$92,000.00 | 1 | — | reporting currency (no conversion) | US$92,000.00 | -US$64,915.20 |
Incremental annual AI cost
Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Licences | US$149,760.00 |
| Additional usage | US$86,400.00 |
| Implementation, training and governance | US$250,000.00 |
| Total incremental AI cost | US$486,160.00 |
Productivity chain
Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Active engineers (annual average) | 240 |
| Released time per active engineer | -2.1000% |
| Theoretical output uplift per active engineer | -2.0568% |
| Released baseline time, whole workforce | -1.2600% |
| Realised workforce output uplift | 0.0000% |
| Adverse output change (stress channel) | -1.2341% |
Capacity-based value
Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Capacity benefit (cost-equivalent of redeployed time)Not a cash or payroll saving | -US$835,430.40 |
| Net value after AI cost | -US$1,321,590.40 |
| Capacity economic ROI | -271.84% |
| Benefit / cost | -1.72× |
Revenue-linked contribution value (scenario)
Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Forecast BAU revenue (no AI) | US$1,248,000,000.00 |
| Incremental revenue scenarioScenario, not a sales forecast | -US$924,082.27 |
| Incremental contribution benefit | -US$323,428.80 |
| Net value after AI cost | -US$809,588.80 |
| Commercial scenario ROI | -166.53% |
| Benefit / cost | -0.67× |
| Effective commercial response e × (1 − d) | 5.0000% |
Diagnostics (calculated by the model, not audited)
Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Engineering-addressable contribution per FTE | US$109,200.00 |
| BAU revenue at which the two valuations are equalNeither valuation is a fixed minimum or maximum | Not applicable to these inputs |
Sensitivity - net time saved on eligible work ±10 points
Scenario | Shift | Capacity benefit | Capacity ROI | Commercial benefit | Commercial ROI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | -10% | -US$2,227,814.40 | -558.25% | -US$833,890.91 | -271.53% |
| Base | 0% | -US$835,430.40 | -271.84% | -US$323,428.80 | -166.53% |
| Optimistic | 10% | US$278,476.80 | -42.72% | US$93,030.43 | -80.86% |
Reproducibility
Reproduced exactly by the current engine (0.1.3). Input hash 3ddddcb47569fc63…, output hash c48c84738b2ef569….
- 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.