AI ROI for AI Operations

Run your AI agents and initiatives like a portfolio, not a pile.

Every AI initiative on one list, with an owner, a budget, its cost and cash value from your systems, and a decision on record to scale, fix or cut it.

Measure up to 5 initiatives free No card, no expiry

AI work is scattered across teams and tools. Nobody can answer 'how many AI projects do we have, and which are working?'

One quarter's portfolio review, line by line

Illustrative figures, not a customer's: five AI initiatives across support, finance, sales, engineering and legal, reviewed at quarter end. The first three are this site's other worked examples.

  1. 1

    Put every AI initiative on one list

    Each has an owner, a stage and an approved budget. AI spend your providers billed that no initiative books, such as API keys nobody linked, is reported as unmeasured, not spread across the five to make the total add up.

    Live initiatives up for review 5
    Ideas still being scoped or reviewed, listed but not measured 9
    AI spend no initiative books $11,400
    Cost of the five this quarter $193,650
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    Net each one's cash against its cost

    Cash only: costs that fell, losses avoided, margin on revenue won, and capacity a document showed became cash. Three initiatives pay for the portfolio; two cost money and return none yet.

    Support triage and deflection: $87,000 cash, $69,000 cost +$18,000
    AP bill automation: $82,560 cash, $30,750 cost +$51,810
    AI lead scoring: $40,983 cash, $21,900 cost +$19,083
    Engineering copilot, 300 seats: $0 cash, $54,000 cost −$54,000
    Contract review pilot, 4 active users: $0 cash, $18,000 cost −$18,000
    Portfolio net cash +$16,893
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    Keep freed capacity beside it

    Hours given back are real, but no budget has shown them yet. They sit beside the ROI, initiative by initiative, so the review can ask which hire not made or contract not renewed will turn them into cash.

    Support triage and deflection $214,035
    AP bill automation $41,340
    AI lead scoring $14,400
    Engineering copilot, 300 seats $96,000
    Contract review pilot, 4 active users $4,500
    Capacity not yet cash $370,275
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    Decide, and record why

    Each decision keeps its reason and the figures it was made against, and sets when the initiative comes back up, so next quarter reads the call as it was made. The copilot's fix: name the hires it replaces, or cut seats to the people using it.

    Support triage and deflection Scale
    AP bill automation Continue
    AI lead scoring Continue
    Engineering copilot, 300 seats Fix
    Contract review pilot, 4 active users Retire
    Cash ROI of the 3 that pay 73%
Cash value
$210,543
Cost
$193,650
Cash ROI
9%
Capacity not yet cash
$370,275
Beside the ROI, not in it

Priced as savings, the same quarter reads 200%. The copilot alone adds $96,000 of hours to that figure and nothing to the cash.

Portfolio Review lists every live initiative with its cost to date, cash value, cash ROI and last decision, the ones due first. Portfolio reviews and decisions →

Where the review starts in Roiva

Step 1 as Roiva shows it: every initiative on one list, with how far each is from a figure you can report, what's missing, and the next thing it needs. An initiative with only costs says so instead of showing a return.

Roiva's Initiatives readiness view: each initiative's stage, owner, status (measured ROI, early figures or cost only), the gaps between it and a reportable figure, and its next action.
The Initiatives readiness view in Roiva's demo account, a fictional company.

What teams are tracking with Roiva

A few of the initiative templates ready to deploy from the in-app library. Each ships with its formulas and the integrations it reads, and takes its baseline from your own history where your systems hold it.

AI coding assistants

Copilot acceptances and Claude Code's accepted edits × the minutes each saves × your developer rate, each priced in its own unit, as freed capacity. Seats and usage come from GitHub's and Anthropic's own billing.

Workflow automation

Successful runs from n8n, Make or Zapier × the minutes of manual work one run replaces × your ops rate, as freed capacity. Failed runs don't count.

AI meeting assistant

Attendee-hours in meetings before and after, from your own calendar history, at your blended rate, as freed capacity. Attendees are the people invited, on both sides of the comparison.

Works with the systems you already run

The integrations most relevant to AI Operations initiatives, and what Roiva does with each one.

Copilot's acceptances and seats from GitHub, and Claude Code's accepted edits from Anthropic or Claude Enterprise with Anthropic's spend: both sides of a coding-assistant rollout.

Successful and failed runs per workflow, so an automation's volume feeds its formula. Make also reports the credits each scenario used.

Meeting count, hours and attendees from your calendars, as the before and after for a meeting assistant, keeping no names.

Roiva tracks the Jira throughput behind an AI coding rollout, issues resolved, cycle time and story points, against the months before it, beside what it costs.

Roiva posts initiative stage changes, value entry approvals, notes and budget alerts to the Slack channel you choose. It can't read your messages.

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AI ROI for AI Operations — FAQ

How do I track an AI initiative portfolio across multiple teams?
Each AI project is an initiative with an owner, a category and department, a stage, a business case and, once approved, a budget. Initiatives lists them all, in three views: the portfolio, readiness (how far each is from a figure you can report, and what it needs next) and performance (cost to date, cash value against plan, cash ROI and last decision). List every idea you're weighing: an initiative counts against your plan once it's being built, live or paused, or once value is recorded on it.
What stages does an AI initiative go through in Roiva?
Identified, then In review, where it goes through your approval chain, one approver or several in turn. Approval moves it to Implementing and records its budget. Then Live, then Completed. Work that's implementing or live can be paused and resumed, an initiative in review can be rejected with a reason, and work under way can be dismissed. Each change is in the initiative's activity feed and the audit log.
Can I track AI ROI across multiple teams in one place?
Yes. ROI adds up every initiative's cash value and cost into one cash ROI for the portfolio, with freed capacity beside it and never in it, and shows each initiative's own. The Board Brief puts the quarter on a PDF for the board.
How do we decide which AI initiatives to scale or cut?
Portfolio Review lists every live initiative with its cost to date, cash value, cash ROI, and last decision, due ones first. Each decision (continue, scale, fix, pause, or retire) is recorded with its reason and the figures it was made against, and sets when the initiative comes back up.
How does Roiva handle the cost side of AI initiatives at portfolio level?
Costs (software, tokens, internal labor, CapEx vs. OpEx) are categorized per initiative and roll up to portfolio totals. Shared spend is split across initiatives by allocation rule, and AI spend no initiative books is reported as unmeasured rather than spread across them to make the total add up.
How many initiatives can we run on the free account?
List as many ideas as you like. The free account measures up to 5 initiatives at a time, an initiative counting once it's being built, live or paused, or has value recorded on it, with 3 connections and 10 people, and it never expires. Paid plans measure unlimited initiatives and are priced by the AI spend you track in Roiva, not by seats or usage.

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Measure up to 5 initiatives at a time on your own data, list every idea you're weighing, and keep it all when you measure more. No card, no expiry.