My AI ROI Calculation
I fight against the AI hype because I don’t like people being lied to by AI promotors such as the CEOs of OpenAI, Perplexity (the two biggest offenders), as well as the heavy embellishments of many other CEOs and private investors in the space. My thinking around LLMs is aligned with Yann LeCun, META’s Chief Scientist.
That said, by leveraging Claude (Anthropic), GPT (OpenAI) and Gemini (Google) across our various T2D Holding offerings, I’ve saved the investment of having to hire one full-time front-end developer, and one full-time back-end developer. Approximately $300K in annual savings this year.
Sophisticated software products such as CEORater can be launched in weeks. Self-curating, self-managed content offerings such as T2D Pulse and Shoot MMA can be launched in several days.
Importantly, you need to know your enterprise data and know how you want to leverage it and how to productize it in order to capture the benefits of automation. Business users have to drive the adoption of AI, whether the “AI” in question is Gen AI, or some predictive analytic that has been around for decades. Companies that hand off “AI” experiments to CTOs will fail to leverage “AI” 100% of the time.