AI budget calculator / FY2027

Calculate Your FY2027 AI Implementation Budget

Setting an AI budget is difficult before you know which processes are in scope. This calculator takes five inputs and returns a first-year range you can bring into FY2027 planning, based on published benchmarks and Reindeer's enterprise implementations.

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Company size

Function area

0 selected

Processes in scope

0 selected

Pick a function area first. The process list depends on it.

Other process (optional)

0/200

Systems each process touches

ERP, email, portals, spreadsheets, bank or carrier sites. Count the typical process, not the most complex one.

How often the work hits exceptions

Missing data, mismatches, unusual formats, anything a person has to step in and resolve.

AI maturity today

Staff on these processes

0 FTE

Headcount-equivalent, including any BPO or contractor staffing.

Still needed: company size, function areas, processes, systems, exceptions, AI maturity, staff count.

FY2027 estimate NOT YET RUN

Set the scope on the left. The estimate builds itself from there.

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Market-average figures. Each one tagged by how solidly it is sourced.

Constant

Value

Basis

Blended technical rate

$140/hr

Triangulated

Robert Half + Clutch.co

Implementation hours

200–480 hrs

Reasoned

By process complexity, with no industry benchmark available

Platform share of implementation

38%

Placeholder

HFS Research license/services ratio

Change management

12%

Triangulated

Prosci Best Practices in Change Management

Contingency

20%

Triangulated

McKinsey/Oxford + PMI overrun research

Range spread

−15% / +25%

Planning buffer

Deliberate, not a sourced figure

Fully-loaded cost per FTE

$90,000/yr

Verified

BLS wage + benefits data

Time reclaimed by maturity

15 / 32 / 50%

Triangulated

McKinsey + Deloitte AI-maturity research

Figures are market averages for planning use, not a Reindeer quote.