BI investment calculator

Estimated BI spend currently unprotected by dashboard integrity review.

Use this calculator to estimate how much current BI investment is still exposed to rework, executive friction, or weak trust before the next board, CFO, or operating review.

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$2.6MDefault annual BI portfolio investment

$520KDefault spend exposed to weak trust

50%Default conservative discount

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The model estimates BI spend currently unprotected by dashboard integrity review, then compares that exposure to a focused integrity engagement.

Estimated unprotected BI spend

$520.0K currently exposed

This is the modeled annual BI spend exposed to rework, executive friction, or weak trust before dashboard integrity review. Adjust the inputs below to pressure-test the case.

Your current BI machine costs $2.6M/year. At 80% executive-ready quality, about $520.0K is still exposed to rework, executive friction, or weak trust. Increasing executive-ready output from 80% to 96% is equivalent to roughly $520.0K of marginal BI capacity, or $260.0K after the conservative discount.

Copyable CFO / VP justification

We have already invested about $2.6M/year in BI software, infrastructure, and team capacity. The remaining risk is not another tool gap. It is trust leakage before executive decisions. A $75.0K dashboard integrity engagement gives us a focused way to protect board-facing and CFO-facing decisions before weak chart evidence creates rework, friction, or bad calls.

Detailed calculations

Current BI investment

$2.6M

Annual software, platform, and loaded team cost.

At-risk BI spend

$520.0K

Annual spend exposed to rework, executive friction, or weak trust.

Cost per quality point

$32.5K

Current spend divided by current output quality.

Modeled new quality

96%

Current quality plus expected improvement, capped at 100.

Quality points gained

16.0

Incremental executive-ready quality points.

Equivalent marginal BI spend

$520.0K

Cost of the same gain through more of the existing BI machine.

Conservatively discounted value

$260.0K

Equivalent spend after applying your conservative discount.

Start with a company-size preset

Annual BI software spend Licenses, BI platforms, analytics tools, AI analytics products. Annual hardware, cloud, and platform spend Cloud, warehouse, infrastructure, compute, data platform allocation. Loaded annual data and BI team cost Salary, bonus, benefits, management load, contractor support. Current executive-ready output quality80% Your estimate of how often dashboards are clear, trusted, decision-ready, and defensible. Expected output-quality lift20% Increasing executive-ready output from 80% to 96% is a 20% lift. 77 Rules integrity investment Use $24,000 for a Sprint comparison or $75,000 for an enterprise engagement comparison. Conservative discount50% Use 50% for a base case. Use 25% for a conservative boardroom case.

Step 1

Total BI investment = software + hardware/cloud/platform + loaded team cost.

Step 2

At-risk BI spend = total BI investment multiplied by the current quality gap. Cost per quality point = total spend divided by current executive-ready output quality.

Step 3

Conservatively discounted value = equivalent marginal BI spend multiplied by the conservative discount.

Use this to see how much BI spend may be exposed without dashboard integrity review.

It is designed for the expensive middle: the company has already bought tools, hired the team, and still needs a defensible reason to fund a Starts at $18K Sprint or starts at $48K enterprise engagement.

Use it before a board deck, CFO review, operating review, or BI review-standard discussion.
Use it when the problem feels smaller than transformation but larger than visual design cleanup.
Use it when more software or headcount feels like a slow and expensive way to improve trust.

Send the model, then test one real dashboard.

Estimated BI spend currently unprotected by dashboard integrity review. Then bring one board-facing dashboard, KPI page, or operating review chart to a private walkthrough so the risk becomes concrete.

Catch charts that pass the eye test but fail the decision test.
Separate cosmetic dashboard issues from executive-risk findings.
Create an audit trail before leadership acts on weak chart evidence.

Send this to your CFO, then bring one dashboard to a walkthrough.

Your team is shipping dashboards faster than ever. Who is auditing them before the CFO acts on the chart?

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