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title: "How to Measure AI ROI"
description: "Measure AI against the workflow baseline it is meant to improve. Useful measures can include completed work, cycle time, review effort, exception rate, error rate, cost per completed task, revenue-related outcomes, or capacity returned to the team. Usage counts alone do not establish ROI."
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# How should a company measure ROI from AI?
Measure AI against the workflow baseline it is meant to improve. Useful measures can include completed work, cycle time, review effort, exception rate, error rate, cost per completed task, revenue-related outcomes, or capacity returned to the team. Usage counts alone do not establish ROI.
## What this means in practice
- Measure the current workflow before changing it.
- Choose a small number of outcome metrics tied to the work itself.
- Include human review time and exception handling in the cost.
- Separate capacity created from actual cash savings unless the business truly removes cost.
- Expand only after the improvement is repeatable and the failure modes are understood.
## How Lid Vizion approaches it
We start with the business decision and operating context, define ownership and measurable milestones, then use configuration, integrations, automation, or custom software only where each earns its place.
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