ROI Calculator

What Does Talent Guesswork Cost You?

Mis-staffing, slow reviews, and bench time bleed money quietly. Move four sliders and see the number — most organizations are surprised how large it is.

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Your Numbers

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All assumptions are conservative industry benchmarks — we show you the formula for every number.

Total Engineers in Your Organization 200 Typical: 100–500

Everyone on your engineering roster — full-time, contractors, and consultants you manage internally.

502,000+

Client Projects or Engagements per Year 20 Typical: 15–40

Each time you assign engineers to a new client project or internal initiative that requires staffing decisions. Every engagement = time spent finding the right people.

5100+

Manager Hours per Review Cycle 8 Typical: 6–16 hrs

How many hours does one manager spend per quarterly review cycle? Include: gathering peer feedback, calibrating scores, writing summaries, attending calibration meetings.

2 hrs40 hrs

Average Engineer Annual Salary (USD) $90,000 Typical: $70K–$130K

Used to calculate the cost of bench time and manager hours. If salaries are in EGP, divide by the current exchange rate and enter the USD equivalent.

$40K$200K

Platform Monthly Cost (USD) $300 Shared plan starts at $300/mo

This is your investment in The Talent Factory. The result panel shows net value after deducting this cost. See full pricing →

$300/mo (Shared)$3,000/mo (Dedicated)

Your Estimated Annual Return

TIME SAVED IN REVIEWS —

Manager hours recovered × hourly rate × 70%

FASTER STAFFING VALUE —

Days recovered per engagement × daily billing rate × 70%

BENCH TIME RECOVERY —

3.5% of total headcount cost recovered from idle time

GROSS ANNUAL VALUE —

Sum of all three value drivers above

PLATFORM INVESTMENT —

Your annual subscription (deducted below)

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Where the money comes from

Three Sources of Measurable Return

Each value driver maps to a real cost your organization is paying today — even if it doesn't appear on any budget line.

Review Time — The Hidden Tax

Quarterly talent reviews consume 8–16 manager hours per cycle in most organizations. That's not counting the 2–3 weeks of calendar coordination, endless follow-up, and subjective calibration meetings. With structured workflows and automated scoring, most teams close reviews in under 4 days.

How we calculate it Engineers ÷ 8 × Review Hours × 4 Cycles × (Salary × 1.4 ÷ 2080) × 70% ÷8 = 1 manager per 8 engineers · 1.4 = loaded cost · 2080 = annual work hours

Staffing Speed — The Revenue Gap

When a client project starts and you can't staff it immediately, every day of delay is a day of billed capacity lost. Average staffing decision time drops from 16 days to ~5 days with real-time talent supply visibility. Multiply by your engagement volume — the number gets large fast.

How we calculate it Engagements × 16 days × 70% × (Salary ÷ 260 days) 16 days = avg staffing delay · 70% = days recovered · ÷260 = daily cost

Bench Time — The Silent Drain

Engineers between engagements cost full salary. Without real-time supply/demand matching, they sit idle longer than necessary — typically 3–8% of total headcount cost is unrecoverable bench time. The platform surfaces available talent the moment demand appears.

How we calculate it Engineers × Salary × 3.5% 3.5% = conservative bench recovery rate · industry range: 3–8%

Methodology

Why You Can Trust These Numbers

We built this calculator to be defensible — not optimistic. Here is exactly what we assume and why.

Value Driver Our Assumption Why Conservative Industry Range

Review time efficiency 70% hours recovered We exclude one-time transition overhead and assume partial adoption in Year 1 60 – 80%

Staffing delay reduction 70% of delay days recovered Based on median, not best-case, across comparable organizations 65 – 75%

Bench time recovery 3.5% of headcount cost Low end of reported range; excludes upstream demand-planning improvements 3 – 8%

Manager loaded cost Salary × 1.4 Covers benefits and overhead; excludes opportunity cost of senior manager time 1.25 – 1.5×

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