ROI calculator

What stale documentation costs you, and what Knops gives back

Put in your own ticket volume, team size and salary bands. The model returns deflected tickets, hours returned to engineering and product, and the payback period, for each of the four teams.

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Adjust the sliders to calculate your savings with Knops AI

Support Ops

Monthly Tickets800
Avg Ticket Cost$28
Team Size6
New Hires / Year5
Current Ramp (Weeks)10wks

Engineering

Engineering Size20
% Time on Docs12%
% Time on Internal Q&A18%

Effective Time Recaptured

+14%

461 hrs/mo recovered across 20 engineers

Product

Product Managers3
% Time on Alignment22%

Time Recaptured

+8%

37 hrs/mo recovered, auto-generated specs & release docs

Sales & Marketing

Sales Team Size8
RFPs / Month6
Hrs per RFP Response18h
Marketing Size4

RFP Time Saved / Month

65 hrs

60% faster responses with auto-generated technical content

Docs Automation

Docs / Month40
Hours Per Doc5h
Writer Rate$55/h

Deflected/Mo

240

MTTR Reduction

25%

Eng Hrs Saved/Mo

461

Payback

3d

FTE Equivalent

17.3

ROI Multiplier

140.8x

Hard Savings /yr

$212,640

Efficiency Value /yr

$1,137,718

Total Project Value /yr

$1,350,358

Before vs After Knops AI

Monthly Ticket Cost$22,400$15,680-30%
Doc Creation Hours/Mo200h40h-80%
Agent Ramp Time10 weeks2.5 weeks-75%
Escalations / Month200160-20%
Knowledge Freshness2–6 months lagHoursReal-time

Agent Onboarding Savings

New hires per year5
Weeks saved per hire7.5 weeks
Cost per unproductive week$1,800
Annual Ramp Savings$67,500

Every agent becomes productive 7.5 weeks sooner, compounding across 5 hires per year.

Projected Savings Timeline

First 30 Days

$162,043

First articles live, deflection begins

60 Days

$540,143

Full sync active, agent training live

90 Days

$1,012,768

Full ROI realized, coverage gaps closing

Day 1Day 30Day 60Day 90

Knowledge Debt Score

High
35/ 100

Based on your ticket volume, documentation needs, and team size. A higher score means more exposure to stale knowledge, increasing support costs, slower agent ramp, and higher churn risk.

Cost of Inaction

What stale, ungoverned knowledge costs your organization every year if nothing changes.

Repeat/preventable tickets (40%)$107,520/yr
Manual doc maintenance waste$66,000/yr
Engineering interrupts from support$829,440/yr
Slow agent ramp cost$67,500/yr
Total Annual Cost of Inaction$1,070,460

Every figure here is modelled from published industry benchmarks, not measured customer results. It is an estimate to size the problem with, not a quotation. Bring your own numbers to a walkthrough and we will work through them with you.