Weekly AI ROI Report
Research and analysis on the economics, adoption and implementation of AI, and what it means for brokers and franchise leadership. Published every Monday by Tia Lake, CEO & Founder of EMDUIT.
Your AI Spend Is Their Revenue. Where Is Your Return?
Providers book revenue the moment you buy AI. Your return only shows up when spend becomes accepted work and a business outcome you can trace.
Read the latest reportProvider revenue is automatic. Customer value must be designed.
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Savings Are Not the Whole Return.
Departments that measured growth outcomes were nearly three times as likely to report strong AI returns. Why hours saved are the floor, not the ceiling.
Read report →Your AI Budget Is Missing the Cost of Trust.
Finance leaders report spending a quarter of their week checking AI output. Why human verification time belongs in every AI business case, and how to measure it.
Read report →The $1 Trillion AI Bet Is Waiting on Your Workflow
Stanford economists found a nearly $1 trillion gap between AI spending and AI revenue. Why the payback depends on deep workflow integration.
Read report →AI Is Getting Cheaper. The Work Isn’t.
Model costs keep falling, but the cost of one dependable business result can keep rising. How to measure AI by completed work, not by token price.
Read report →The Next AI Dollar Has to Be Earned.
Finance leaders are funding AI in stages, each one earned by evidence. What staged AI funding means for how brokerages prove ROI.
Read report →AI ROI Is Becoming A Public Promise
Sysco and Chewy put named dollar targets on AI savings. Why a public AI promise is not yet a realized return, and what makes it credible.
Read report →AI Is Paying the Vendors. Is It Paying You?
Earnings season shows AI vendors are getting paid. It does not show what buyers earned. How to measure AI value on your side of the deal.
Read report →AI ROI Has a Timing Problem.
Companies are measuring the right AI outcome at the wrong moment. How to match AI metrics to the stage of the workflow.
Read report →The AI Worked. The Deployment Didn’t.
Most AI pilots stall because the business is not ready, not because the model failed. What separates AI pilots that reach production.
Read report →AI Usage Is Not ROI. Stop Reporting It That Way.
Seats, users and messages show AI adoption, not return. Why usage metrics mislead and what to report instead.
Read report →AI Budgets Aren’t Freezing. Unmeasured AI Is.
Unexpected AI costs are triggering spending freezes. Why visible unit economics separate funded AI programs from frozen ones.
Read report →AI Saved You Time. Now Show Where the Value Went.
Hours saved by AI often disappear back into the workday. How to turn AI time savings into revenue, margin or faster follow-up.
Read report →The Companies Winning at AI Aren't Spending More — They're Keeping Receipts
KPMG data shows leaders with strong AI cost visibility are 5x more likely to report established ROI. Why tracking beats spending.
Read report →"Useful Intelligence per Dollar": The CFOs Have Taken Over AI ROI
CFOs are taking over AI ROI measurement with metrics like useful intelligence per dollar. What it means for your first AI implementation.
Read report →AI is everywhere now. Deep integration is still rare.
AI use is now normal business behavior, but deep integration is still rare. Why integration, not usage, closes the AI ROI gap.
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