AI budget calculator / FY2027

Calculate Your FY2027 AI Implementation Budget

Setting an AI budget is difficult before you know which processes are in scope. This calculator takes five inputs and returns a first-year range you can bring into FY2027 planning, based on published benchmarks and Reindeer's enterprise implementations.

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Company size

Function area

0 selected

Processes in scope

0 selected

Pick a function area first. The process list depends on it.

AI maturity today

Staff on these processes

0 FTE

Headcount-equivalent, including any BPO or contractor staffing.

Still needed: company size, function areas, processes, AI maturity, staff count.

FY2027 estimate NOT YET RUN

Set the scope on the left. The estimate builds itself from there.

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Market-average figures. Each one tagged by how solidly it is sourced.

Constant

Value

Basis

Blended technical rate

$140/hr

Triangulated

Robert Half + Clutch.co

Implementation hours

200–480 hrs

Reasoned

By process complexity, with no industry benchmark available

Platform share of implementation

38%

Placeholder

HFS Research license/services ratio

Change management

12%

Triangulated

Prosci Best Practices in Change Management

Contingency

20%

Triangulated

McKinsey/Oxford + PMI overrun research

Range spread

−15% / +25%

Planning buffer

Deliberate, not a sourced figure

Fully-loaded cost per FTE

$90,000/yr

Verified

BLS wage + benefits data

Time reclaimed by maturity

15 / 32 / 50%

Triangulated

McKinsey + Deloitte AI-maturity research

Figures are market averages for planning use, not a Reindeer quote.