At $25 per seat, the Platform pays for itself the first time it drafts a document you'd otherwise build by hand. Add a practitioner knowledge vault for $50 and cited benchmarks replace hours of searching. Here is the actual math.
Projects, engagements, and document generation from your own data. At $150/hr, the Platform pays for itself in about ten minutes of recovered drafting time per month. The first document it drafts instead of you building it by hand has already covered the seat.
Add a practitioner knowledge vault and cited benchmarks replace hours of searching. At $150/hr, the combined seat pays for itself in about thirty minutes a month, and a single cited answer in front of a client is usually worth a good deal more than that.
Start on Platform alone for $25 and run it on one live project. If the system of record and document generation aren't saving your team time, you haven't committed to a vault yet. Add one the month cited knowledge starts to matter, and drop it any month it doesn't.
Manual first-draft RFP for 3PL or WMS procurement: 6–10 hours. With the Skills engine and a knowledge vault (data gates for throughput, SKU count, operating hours, peak profile): 45–90 minutes. At $150/hr billing: $675–$1,275 in recovered time per RFP, against a $75/seat Platform + vault.
Manual Concept of Operations for a DC automation project: 4–8 hours. Skills engine with structured operational envelope inputs: 60–120 minutes. At $125/hr: $375–$875 per ConOps document.
Building NPV/IRR/payback from scratch with vendor data, labor benchmarks, and CAPEX estimates: 3–6 hours. Skills engine with vault benchmark validation: 30–60 minutes. At $150/hr: $337–$750 per model.
Practitioners spend 3–5 hours/week searching benchmarks, KPI definitions, and reference frameworks across trade press, vendor content, and peer networks. A knowledge vault returns cited answers in seconds. At 1 hour/week recovered: $5,200–$10,400/yr at $100–$200/hr — the vault's home turf, at +$50/seat.
For a team, the calculus is different. The question is not whether a seat pays for one practitioner, it is how much leverage it creates across everyone on the system of record.
A junior associate who produces a first-draft RFP at 70% of senior quality, in 40% of the time, is not just saving hours, they are expanding the team's effective capacity without adding headcount.
Per seat, per month. Knowledge vaults are billed per seat, per vault — add more vaults to a seat at +$50 each.
These estimates assume you are working on projects where practitioner-grade benchmarks and structured deliverables matter. If you are not producing RFPs, ConOps documents, or ROI models for automation investments, a knowledge vault's value is lower and the math changes.
Platform alone is the right entry point for teams that need a system of record and document generation but aren't leaning on cited benchmarks yet. Query depth and benchmark access — the vault's value — come in when that changes.
The ROI calculator above is honest about assumptions. Run your own numbers. If the Platform breakeven is roughly ten minutes per month of recovered time, that is a low bar to clear on any active project.
Platform at $25/seat. Add the Logistics knowledge vault for cited, practitioner-authored answers.