Methodology guide

ROI calculator methodology for enterprise sales and scoped buyer conversations

This resource is based on the repository-backed ROI methodology and brings the formula-only model into the Resource Center so sellers can explain how ROI should be calculated without inventing savings or default percentages.

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Audience Coverage

Enterprise Sales

Commercial materials that support buyer discovery, evaluation, and deal progression.

Procurement

Materials that organize buyer questions, vendor diligence, and internal approval workflows.

Investor

Company and diligence materials that help investors navigate approved public surfaces.

Key Takeaways

  • Requires customer-supplied assumptions instead of vendor-invented default savings.
  • Separates value buckets such as review efficiency, evidence assembly, labeling, and triage.
  • Explicitly prevents turning compliance support into guaranteed fine avoidance or legal proof.

Guardrails

Start with the constraints before showing formulas.

No invented savings

The methodology forbids default ROI percentages, default savings rates, or unsupported customer outcomes.

No legal conversion

It also forbids converting compliance support into guaranteed penalty avoidance or legal sufficiency.

Inputs and Baselines

Explain the customer data needed to use the model credibly.

Baseline variables

The methodology collects volume, labor-rate, time-per-task, and activity-count variables for a chosen evaluation period.

Scope discipline

The model expects the same period and scope assumptions to carry through every formula.

Value Buckets

Use the same vocabulary as the source methodology so finance and sales remain aligned.

Savings buckets

Review efficiency, evidence assembly, labeling, duplicate-review reduction, and triage efficiency are all named as separate value buckets.

Workflow specificity

Article 50, media, education, KYC, and public-sector models each reuse those buckets with different combinations.

Cost and Presentation Rules

Close with the parts buyers and sellers misuse most often.

Cost model

Subscription, overage, add-ons, services, and internal implementation all need to be modeled with actual scoped costs.

Output discipline

The methodology recommends low, base, and high ranges and minimum-input checks before presenting ROI.

Downloads

XLSX

ROI spreadsheet template

Open access. The methodology is live now; an executable spreadsheet can be attached later.

Access: Public access Available now
Presentation

ROI workshop request

Form required. Use a guided workshop for customer-specific modeling.

Access: Request access Available upon request

FAQ

No. It is intentionally designed to require customer-provided baseline assumptions.

No. The source explicitly forbids using the model to promise avoided penalties or legal sufficiency.

Enterprise sellers, solutions teams, procurement stakeholders, and financial evaluators who need a conservative value model.

Related Topics

Value modeling Customer-supplied assumptions Workflow efficiency Commercial discipline

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Review list pricing before modeling package cost.

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