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Plexus Know Your Worth / Monthly planning

AI work cost calculator.

Compare a workload’s human labor benchmark with the AI tools and human review you would allocate to it. Every assumption is editable.

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Pilot planning scenario

Ukrainian language processing

Fervent Wishes Newsroom

This pilot has no allocated workload or costs in the portfolio plan. Enter assumptions to explore it separately.

Pilot work is excluded from the normal role plan. Values entered here model an experiment, not booked savings.

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Set one monthly workload across the functions shown, then adjust your tool budget and review time.

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Pilot planning scenario. Enter assumptions to explore this experiment.

BLS national median wages, before employer benefits or payroll costs. Add your own burden percentage if useful.

Allocate one monthly workload across the visible functions. All hours and rates can be edited.
Function & benchmark occupationHours / monthUSD / hour
Research & documentationTechnical writers ↗$43.46/hr BLS median
Your monthly AI workflow

Allocate shared subscriptions and reused deliverables once. Hours describe one workload across the functions shown; role counts do not multiply it.

Benchmarks & calculation

May 2025 · United States · national. Same occupation benchmarks as Plexus Know Your Worth, verified October 18, 2026. Rates are editable occupation benchmarks, not quotes for a specific hire.

Human equivalent = hours × hourly value, plus your employer burden for the employee-wage basis. The freelance illustration already includes benefits and business expenses. Net difference = human equivalent − allocated AI/tool cost − review hours × review value. A blank cost stays unknown; enter zero explicitly when appropriate. Annualized savings repeat the monthly net difference for 12 months.

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Published role-card scenario

Org chart plan totals.

Reference totals for the full illustrative role-card plan. These stay fixed when you edit the calculator above. Pilots are excluded; annualized savings are the monthly estimate × 12.

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Company and portfolio savings estimated from the published role-card plan.
CompanyEstimated monthly savingsAnnualized estimated savings
Talbot Technologies $492.58$5,910.96
Singularity Studios No verified role estimate
Theta Labs $567.58$6,810.96
Parallax Web Services $1,061.92$12,743.04
Unblurred Vision $246.29$2,955.48
Prepped $589.92$7,079.04
Fervent Wishes $454.46$5,453.52
Level Up Entertainment $246.29$2,955.48
Tryzantha $301.24$3,614.88
Full portfolio$3,960.28$47,523.36

Plan totals sum the individually rounded role cards. The combined editable calculator may differ by a few cents. All amounts are modeled estimates, not actual cash savings.