Two components. A fixed subscription per seat that stays flat inside the term, and a performance bonus that pays nothing until the hours we return have already repaid that subscription. Change the inputs to model your own deployment.
You make your money back at 17 minutes a week per person, and keep 77% of the value returned.
| Hours / person / week | Value returned | Subscription | Bonus | Total you pay | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 min (payback) | $540k | $540k | — | $540k | 0.0% |
| 30 min | $960k | $540k | $42k | $582k | 39.4% |
| 1 h | $1.92M | $540k | $138k | $678k | 64.7% |
| 2 h (modelled) | $3.84M | $540k | $330k | $870k | 77.3% |
| 2.53 h (20% line) | $4.86M | $540k | $432k | $972k | 80.0% |
| 3 h | $5.76M | $540k | $522k | $1.06M | 81.6% |
| 4 h | $7.68M | $540k | $714k | $1.25M | 83.7% |
Two hours a week is the level we plan and present against, because it equals 5% of a working year and sits inside measured field results. At 2.53 hours a week our combined subscription and bonus reach 20% of the value returned, the conventional share for arrangements of this kind, and most of it is fixed fee you can forecast.
Hours returned are measured in aggregate across the deployment, never person by person. Subtract the payback threshold (13.5 h x 1,000 people = 13,500 h), multiply what remains by your loaded hourly cost, take our share, then apply the cap. One number to agree each year, on hours returned and nothing else. Redeployed rather than cut, those hours show up as rising revenue per employee, a figure your finance team already reports.
Bring your headcount and your loaded labor rate, and we will size a first deployment on the call.