Measureless / Field guide / v1.0

The assumptions are the model.

Use Measureless to compare a manual process with a proposed AI-assisted process in USD.

Baseline

Manual monthly hours = tasks × (manual minutes + manual rework rate × rework minutes) ÷ 60. Baseline cost = those hours × labor value per hour.

AI-assisted process

AI monthly labor hours = tasks × (review minutes + AI rework rate × rework minutes) ÷ 60 + oversight hours. Run cost = tasks × cost per run × (1 + extra-run percentage). Total recurring cost = labor value + run cost + fixed costs.

Value and payback

Modeled monthly net value = baseline cost − AI-assisted recurring cost. First-year net value = 12 × monthly net value − setup cost. Payback months = setup cost ÷ positive monthly net value. These are undiscounted capacity-value estimates.

Break-even task volume

The calculator separates per-task contribution from monthly fixed costs and oversight. With a positive per-task contribution, the first non-negative monthly volume is rounded up to a whole task. No profitable volume exists when per-task contribution is non-positive and fixed overhead is positive.

Run a pilot

Time representative tasks. Count corrections. Include onboarding and monitoring effort. Replace estimates with measurements and compare more than one scenario. Extra-run percentage represents additional run count, not a probability model.

Working privately

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Take your work with you

Markdown exports are readable project documents. JSON exports include inputs and results for a reproducible handoff. Print / PDF opens your browser’s print dialog with a clean report layout.