You have read how to measure it. Now build it.
The framework hands you the method. The lab hands you the instrument. Enter your own numbers and walk away with a measurement you built yourself, expressed at exactly the confidence your visibility has earned, never a step beyond it.
Two ways in
One instrument, two doors. Start where you are: set the baseline, or confront the metrics that lie. Each opens onto the same shared measurement — the full documentary case file lives at AI ROI.
One tool, in the open
This is the shared core every experience runs on. Enter what you have. The measurement is arithmetic over your own entries and nothing else. It will not hand you a number your visibility has not earned.
AI spend for the period
The denominator — measured against value created, never a value metric on its own.
Revenue Influenced
Deals AI was traceably part of — tied to the deal, not “someone used ChatGPT once.” Describe what the AI traceably did in your own words, and be honest: this is the question your board will ask, and the tool records your attestation rather than judging it. An entry with the engagement or that description left blank is shown, not counted.
Revenue Protected
Retention or expansion an AI-detected signal caused. If the team would have caught it anyway, it does not count.
Capability Built
What the team can do now that it could not six months ago. Not a dollar figure. Not hours saved.
Your readiness level
Be honest here — it sets the confidence the number is allowed to carry, and the tool checks your claim against the evidence you entered.
The level is not a score. It is the confidence the number below is allowed to carry: not yet trustworthy — you have activity, not outcome visibility. at the first two levels, directional — curated, not comprehensive. at the third, and answerable with a number that connects to real revenue and real capability. at the top two.
The metrics that do not count
Try to add hours saved, adoption, tokens, or any other metric. The tool refuses each with the metric worth watching instead.
Nothing here reaches the value read. The value picture is built only from Revenue Influenced, Revenue Protected, and Capability Built.
Your measurement
Enter your own AI spend, the Three Dimensions, and your readiness level, then build the measurement. The picture that follows is arithmetic over your entries — nothing else.
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