TL-002 · Numeric model

AI-Native QE ROI Calculator

Plug in your team's reality. We'll estimate the annual recovery from full Bucket-5 adoption. At a conservative 8–17× leverage range, with the inputs that produced the number visible the whole way down.

Inputs

Plug in your team's reality.

QA / SDET headcount

people

Fully-loaded cost / engineer

$/ year

Manual regression hours / sprint

hours

Across the whole team, per 2-week sprint.Flaky-test CI minutes / sprint

minutes

Per engineer. Investigation + retry overhead.Escaped defects / year

incidents

Production issues attributable to gaps in coverage.Avg. cost per escaped defect

Customer impact, rollback time, hotfix engineering.

How we calibrated this

Conservative on purpose.

The methodology paper documents up to 17× automation output and 21× QA leverage at full Bucket-5 adoption. We use 8× as the floor and apply a 70% reduction factor to the inputs you provide, so the estimate reflects the bottom of the curve, not the marketing claim.

The number is an estimate, not a guarantee. To get a real one, run the audit against your actual repos and engagement data.