Agent skill · business finance · onewave-ai
roi-calculator
Calculate comprehensive ROI for AI implementation projects. Takes current costs, manual process time, team size, and hourly rates. Generates detailed roi-analysis.md with executive summary, cost-benefit tables, sensitivity analysis, break-even timeline, and comparison scenarios. Use when evaluating AI investments, building business cases, or justifying automation spend.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a comprehensive executable script for calculating ROI with detailed financial insights that the AI cannot generate on its own.
What it needs
About 1k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-15. 242 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
AI Implementation ROI Calculator Gather inputs about current operations and produce a comprehensive roi-analysis.md with data-backed financial insights and a clear recommendation. Contents references/inputs.md — required and optional inputs, with defaults references/methodology.md — all calculation formulas and sensitivity/comparison logic references/output-template.md — full roi-analysis.md structure to fill in references/rules-and-protocol.md — calculation rules, interaction protocol, quality checklist Workflow 1. Collect inputs. Gather every required cost, time, and labor input. If any required input is missing, ask for it in one organized message grouped by category. Do not guess. See references/inputs.md for the full input list and defaults. 2. Apply defaults. For optional parameters the user omits, use the conservative defaults in references/inputs.md and note that defaults were applied. 3. Calculate metrics. Compute time savings, cost savings, net monthly savings, ramp-up adjustment, payback period, 12-month ROI, NPV, and productivity gain using the formulas in references/methodology.md. 4. Run sensitivity and comparison scenarios. Produce conservative/base/optimistic cases and at least three comparison scenarios per references/methodology.md. 5. Generate the report. Write roi-analysis.md to the current working directory following references/output-template.md. Apply the formatting and calculation rules in references/rules-and-protocol.md. 6. Verify and summarize. Run the quality checklist in references/rules-and-protocol.md, then report the top 3 findings and the saved file path.
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills onewave-ai/roi-calculator