AI delivery ROI calculator
How much could AI-native delivery tooling actually save your team? Hours saved × hourly cost, minus seat fees. Conservative defaults.
About this calculator
This is a marketing-leaning tool. We're showing you the ROI math for our own product. Every input is yours to control. We don't pre-fill $200/hr or 10 hrs/week to inflate the output; defaults reflect conservative mid-market US engineering economics (10 engineers, $120/hr fully loaded, 5 hours saved per week).
Hours-saved-per-engineer-per-week is from telemetry across 5,200 stories on Stride beta customers. Plan module alone saves 4-8 hours/week typical; multi-module adoption increases the number. Full methodology in the blog post.
Your team
Headcount that touches the tool weekly. PMs, designers, and ops staff often add separately.
Salary + benefits + overhead per hour. US mid-market average is $100-$150; senior $150-$220.
Stride beta telemetry across 5,200 stories: 4-8 hours/week typical on Plan module alone; higher with multiple modules.
Stride Pro is $29/seat/mo (default). Enter your actual or negotiated rate.
86.2× ROI: you get back $86.2 for every $1 spent. Payback in 5 days.
How to think about the inputs
- Hours saved per week: Most teams underestimate this for the same reason they underestimate sprint capacity. The AI saves time on work that doesn't feel like "real engineering" (acceptance criteria authoring, sprint planning, release notes, retro prep). 5 hours/week is the conservative default; teams that adopt all four modules see 8-12.
- Fully-loaded hourly cost: Salary ÷ 2080 doesn't capture the real number. Add benefits (typically 25-35% of base) + overhead (real estate, tooling, ops support: another 15-25%). US mid-market average is $100-$150/hr fully loaded for senior engineers.
- Monthly cost per seat: $29 is Stride Pro's published price. For Enterprise deployments with SCIM + SSO + dedicated success engineer, negotiated rates typically land $50-$80/seat, still well within the positive-ROI envelope for most team sizes.
- Team size: The calculator scales linearly: same per-engineer ROI for a team of 5 or 500. The savings number gets bigger; the multiple stays constant for given inputs.
See where the time goes
Stride starts at $9/seat/month for Starter, $29/seat/month for Pro (all four modules + 800 AI credits per seat). Most teams hit positive ROI within the first 30 days, well inside the payback window above.
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