What does executive AI readiness actually return?
A directional estimate of the annual value of AI-fluent leadership — hours recovered, decisions unstuck, rework avoided, tool sprawl retired — measured against real Fractional C-Sweet engagement pricing. A paid diagnostic replaces these assumptions with measured data from your operation.
Tell us about your leadership bench
Status reporting, deck assembly, rewriting, chasing data.
Deals, hires, launches, vendor picks, regulatory sign-offs.
Overlapping copilots, point tools, stalled pilots.
Roughly 902 executive hours returned to your leadership team each year.
- Leadership hours recovered902 executive hours back per year$123,537
- Team leverage from AI-fluent leadersCapability lift across reporting teams$648,000
- Decision cycle time compressed554 decision-days pulled forward$399,168
- Rework and rebuild avoidedFewer wrong-direction cycles$583,200
- AI and SaaS spend consolidatedOverlapping tools and stalled pilots retired$54,000
AI Innovation Lab cohort
A small leadership bench builds fluency fastest together.
- Investment
- $96,000
- Return multiple
- 13.2x
- Payback
- 4 wks
Net of fees, that is $1,169,533 – $1,983,090 in the first year.
Assumptions, stated plainly
Leadership hours
We assume AI-fluent leaders reclaim 35% of the hours they currently lose to reporting, deck assembly, and chasing data — priced at fully loaded hourly cost.
Team leverage
A 4% productivity lift across the teams reporting to trained leaders. Conservative against published enterprise ranges.
Decision velocity
30% of waiting days removed, with each waiting day carrying roughly 1.2% of the value at stake.
Rework avoided
Thirty percent of the rework you already report is eliminated by clearer briefs, better first drafts, and shared context.
Tool consolidation
A quarter of current AI and SaaS pilot spend retired once overlapping tools and stalled pilots are rationalized.
Range, not a promise
The low figure applies a 30% haircut; the high figure allows 15% upside. Actual results depend on data quality, governance, and adoption.
Turn the estimate into a costed plan
The Executive AI Diagnostic measures your actual decisions, workflows, and spend, then delivers a prioritized roadmap with ROI projections you can take to a board. Or start free: answer seven questions and the Readiness Concierge builds your initial AI roadmap in about two minutes.