Thank you Juan Salas-Romer, Olamide Amosu, and many others for tuning into my live video this afternoon!
AI tool usage inside 400 companies climbed 65%. Completed tasks climbed 8%.
Today’s live session is on why those two numbers sit so far apart, and on the single measurement that decides whether your AI spending comes back to you.
Here’s what’s we covered:
▸ Why your AI tool only works on about 14% of your team’s day, and what that means for your return
▸ The Friction Ledger, a three-column method you fill in before you spend anything
▸ A full worked calculation on one workflow, from 6 minutes saved to $58,000 a year
▸ The same workflow at a company with conflicting supplier records, where the return is (-$18,000)
▸ How to run this yourself
The deck is yours as well. Every figure from the session is on a slide, so you can drop your own numbers straight into the calculation.
Every minute someone spends checking your AI’s output is a minute subtracted from what it saved. Nobody writes that number into a business case, which is why so many AI projects look profitable on paper and return nothing.
On Sunday, I’m publishing ‘Calculate AI ROI Your CFO Will Approve’ for paid subscribers. Today gives you the method. Sunday gives you the files.
You get:
▸ The ledger as a working spreadsheet with the formulas already built
▸ The questions to ask when you walk through a workflow with the person who runs it
▸ The prompt that turns your recorded times into a one-page summary for finance
▸ And the slide structure for presenting the figures to your leadership team
See you Sunday!
Hodman
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