ROI model
Value unlocked by making the corpus usable.
The model focuses on the work MVP Stage 0 can actually touch: search, passage retrieval, citation capture, and first-pass summarization. It treats value as productivity-equivalent upside, not automatic headcount reduction.
MVP Stage 0 assumptions model
The calculator treats savings as productivity-equivalent upside, not automatic headcount reduction. The practical target is faster movement from question to useful source, exact passage, citation, and reusable evidence.
Fixed assumption: search, retrieval, citation, and first-pass summarization represent 45% of document-heavy work.
Modeled output
Value unlocked by MVP Stage.
30,000
Annual document-heavy hours
$4,500,000
Annual review cost
$2,025,000
Search/citation cost pool
$607,500
Annual MVP value unlocked
MVP Stage 0 value = annual document-heavy cost x the fixed search/citation share x the percentage of that time the initial search engine unlocks.
| Value lever | MVP assumption |
|---|---|
| Search and source discovery | Hybrid retrieval reduces repository hops and keyword trial-and-error. |
| Passage retrieval | Exact page, section, chunk, and source text instead of manual PDF hunting. |
| Citation and summarization | Evidence objects preserve citation metadata before synthesis begins. |