Business case
Put your own numbers on it.
Start from an example fleet of any size, then edit every assumption. Your inputs, your math.
- Starting assumptions, not results
- Nothing is stored or sent
- Pricing is not published
Your starting assumptions
Assumptions
Every formula, in words.
Nothing is hidden. This is exactly how the numbers above are worked out.
- Hours BAI absorbs each week = for each of the four admin rows, your hours a week times the share BAI can absorb or defer, added up.
- Value of admin time each year = hours absorbed each week × 52 weeks × what an hour of this work costs you.
- Invoices each year = trucks × loads per truck per week × 52 weeks.
- Revenue each year = invoices each year × your average invoice.
- Days faster = days from delivery to invoice today minus days with BAI, never below zero.
- Cash arriving sooner = revenue each year ÷ 365 × days faster. This is a one-time amount of cash you hold earlier, not a yearly figure.
- Carrying cost avoided each year = cash arriving sooner × your yearly cost of waiting for cash.
- Benchmark for a hire you would otherwise make = your salary benchmark, counted only if you say you would otherwise hire. A benchmark is not a saving.
- BAI cost each year = your monthly pilot terms × 12. Pricing is not published.
- Net each year = value of admin time + carrying cost avoided + the hire benchmark (only if counted) − BAI cost each year.
- Share of a full-time role = hours absorbed each week ÷ 40. It describes hours, not people.
- Money is rounded to whole dollars. Inputs outside the allowed range are brought back into range.
Benchmarks are not savings
- The salary benchmark is a reference for the hire you would otherwise make, not money you get back.
- Realised savings depend on what you actually do with the hours BAI frees up.
- Critical oversight stays with people. BAI prepares; a person approves anything consequential.
What BAI absorbs or defers
BAI absorbs or defers routine administrative work, so your people spend their hours on the work that needs them.
- Fewer status calls. Customer tracking links and driver updates answer where-is-my-truck before anyone picks up the phone.
- Less manual data entry. Loads, stops and papers are entered once and carried through to the invoice.
- Billing prepared the day a load delivers. Proof of delivery turns into a ready-to-bill invoice for a person to check and send.
- The week-close checklist. Pay checked, paperwork complete, invoices out, week locked, one step at a time.
Check these numbers on your own records.
A pilot measures what changes on your loads, trucks and invoices, with thresholds agreed with you.