The ROI of AI: Cutting 20 Hours from Your Work Week

Time is the currency of professional services. In investment banking, consulting, and law, revenue is directly tied to billable hours and deal velocity. Yet, highly paid professionals often spend up to 40% of their work week on non-billable, low-value administrative tasks.

The Hidden Cost of Manual Work

Let’s break down the typical week of an Associate:

• Formatting Slides: 5 hours/week (Aligning boxes, fixing fonts)
• Data Cleaning: 4 hours/week (Fixing Excel errors, reformatting CSVs)
• Drafting Memos: 6 hours/week (Summarizing notes, initial drafting)
• Information Retrieval: 5 hours/week (Searching through folders for “that one precedent”)

Total Lost Time: 20 hours/week

That is 1,000 hours per year—half a billable year—spent on work that does not require a human brain.

The o11 ROI Calculation

o11 automates these mechanical tasks, returning that time to the fee-earner.

• Slide Generation: Instant.
• Data Cleaning: Automated via Agent.
• Drafting: Accelerated by 80%.

The Financial Impact If your billable rate is $300/hour (a conservative estimate for mid-level associates), saving 20 hours a week represents $6,000 per week in recovered value per user.

Scale that across a 10-person deal team, and the ROI becomes undeniable.

Invest in Speed The firms that win the next decade will be the ones that deploy their talent on high-leverage strategic thinking, not on aligning pixels. Invest in o11.