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    Free interactive tool

    The free training ROI calculator

    See the time and money you'd save by switching to AI-built training — whether you build courses in-house today, or pay for a separate LMS and video tool. Drag the sliders, get your number. No sign-up.

    Used by L&D and HR teams · results in ~30 seconds · no email required to run it

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    $40 hrs / course$$60 / hour$12 courses / yrAIWith ContentBuilder90%lower cost to build10×+ fasterto launch a course

    Your training today

    12programs
    40hrs
    $60

    Assumes AI cuts course production time and cost by ~90% — courses built in hours, not weeks.

    Live estimate

    Estimated annual savings

    $25,920

    Building by hand$28,800
    With ContentBuilder$2,880

    432

    hours saved / year

    10×+

    faster to launch

    90%

    lower cost

    Get the full ROI & TCO report (PDF) with your numbers:

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    The method

    How training ROI is calculated.

    Training ROI is the return you get from money spent on building and running training. This calculator compares two real costs — building courses by hand versus building them with AI — so you can quantify employee onboarding ROI, corporate training ROI or your whole AI learning platform ROI in one place.

    1

    Cost of building by hand

    Programs per year × hours to build each × your team's blended hourly cost. That's the people-time to design, write, film and assemble training the old way.

    2

    Cost with AI

    AI structures your existing docs and recordings into courses, video and quizzes — cutting production time and cost by roughly 90%.

    3

    Your training ROI

    The gap between the two is your estimated annual saving, plus the hours your team gets back. Switch to TCO mode to compare against your current LMS and video tool instead.

    Why the numbers hold up

    The savings are real.

    ~90%

    lower production cost, reported by teams

    40%

    faster onboarding at Simply Contact

    80%

    lower offline-training cost at Logity

    3×

    more content, same headcount

    Aggregate customer results. Your figure depends on your team, plan and scale — use the calculator above for your own estimate.

    Training ROI calculator FAQ

    Training ROI compares what you spend on training against what you get back. In this calculator's “vs building in-house” mode, it multiplies the programs you build per year by the hours each takes and your team's blended hourly cost, then compares that to building with AI — which cuts production time and cost by roughly 90%. The difference is your estimated annual saving, plus the hours your team gets back.

    ROI mode (“vs building in-house”) measures what you save versus creating training by hand. TCO mode (“vs your current stack”) totals what you pay today for an LMS per seat plus a separate AI-video or authoring tool, and compares it to one consolidated platform — typically ~50% lower tooling total cost of ownership.

    It's free and not gated — run it as many times as you like without signing up. Entering your work email is optional; it just sends a detailed ROI & TCO report with multi-year projections.

    The people-time to design, write, film and assemble each course — instructional designers, subject-matter experts and video production. External course production often runs $10k–$50k per program; the calculator lets you use your own blended hourly rate instead.

    Yes. The same model works for employee onboarding ROI, compliance training ROI or corporate training ROI — set the number of programs and hours for that team and read the saving. Book a demo and we'll build one of those courses from your content live.

    Stop paying to build training by hand.

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