What this demo is about
AI adoption decisions should account for full implementation cost, expected value creation, and time to recover the investment.
AI/ML Workflows • Browser Mode • 10-15 min
AI Cost Benefit Analyzer
Students can build a simple AI investment case by entering implementation costs, expected transaction volume, and efficiency gains, then interpreting NPV, ROI, and payback outputs.
Runs fully in browser
NPV and ROI model
Decision recommendation
Learning objectives
- Translate project assumptions into a financial model.
- Interpret NPV, ROI, and payback together instead of separately.
- Challenge optimistic AI business-case assumptions.
Input Variables
Inputs represent simplified assumptions. Personnel cost is calculated as hours multiplied by hourly rate before being added to data and compute costs.
Decision Button
Calculate Business Case runs a 3-year discounted cash-flow approximation and generates a recommendation based on ROI and payback speed.
Output and Explanation
Total implementation cost
$0
Annual value created
$0
3-year NPV
$0
ROI
0%
Payback period
0 months
What to notice: high ROI can still hide long payback or unrealistic value assumptions. Students should test how sensitive the result is to efficiency gain and transaction volume.