The cost of AI,and the cost of going without it.

Every owner asks the same three questions before bringing AI into the business. Here are straight answers, worked out with your own numbers.

01What does it cost to not use AI?
02What does it cost to use it?
03What do you actually get back?

The cost of not using AI.

Opportunity

7×

Reply to a new lead within an hour and you are nearly seven times as likely to reach a real conversation.

Harvard Business Review, 2011

Profit

8 of 40 h

Paid hours that go to retyping, confirming and chasing, every week.

Change it in your numbers

Optimization

Unread

How the business is doing is already in your calls, emails and records. Nobody has time to pull it out.

Competition

58%

of small businesses already use generative AI, up from 23% in 2023.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2025

Most businesses using AIget little from it.

5%Getting value from AI at scale
35%Seeing some returns
60%Getting almost nothing from it

1,250 companies, each point is 1%. BCG, 2025

58% of small businesses already use generative AI, so it is easy to assume you are covered. Using it and getting value from it are not the same thing.

AI added on the sideAI built into the workDone

1.7×the revenue growth of companies getting real value from AIBCG, 2025

3×as likely to have rebuilt how the work runs around itMcKinsey, 2025

That is the part we build: AI inside the work, not beside it.

A rough sense of the numbers.

Your numbers · nothing is stored

Inquiries that slip through in a weekCalls, emails, forms and quotes that never got a timely answer or a follow-upShare that would have become business%Your guess is better than oursWhat one new customer is worth$A job, a case, a first visit, a leaseHours a week spent on repetitive work hConfirmations, follow-ups, data entry, chasing, reportsWhat an hour of that time costs$Wages, or what you could bill instead

Roughly what going without costs you, per year

$108,160

Opportunities that slip through$93,600

Paid hours on repetitive work$14,560

Per month$9,013

Each point is $500. Ink points are opportunities that slip through. Grey points are paid hours.

The real cost is hard to pin down, and much of what AI does for a business never shows up as one number. Treat this as a starting point. On a call, we work it out with you properly.

The cost of using it.

How it is priced: Usually a monthly fee. Some systems also have a setup charge up front, and some are a mix of both.
What sets the price: What the system has to do, how many of your tools it connects to, and how much work runs through it.
Time to launch: Set in your written plan. Every build is different, and we build to the timeline we agree.
Your quote: In writing, after a call about your business, before anything is built.
Your time: A call, and a few hours showing us how the work runs today.

Talk to us about pricing

What you get back.

An answer within a minute, at any hour, on every call and message.
Hours back every week for the work that earns.
Every call, message and job in your records, without anyone typing it.
Room to grow without hiring at the same pace.

If a system won back

of your number

$4,507 a month

That is the value to weigh against a monthly price. We quote yours after a call.

Worked out from your numbers. An estimate, not a promise.

Find out what AIwould do for yours.

Book a call. We will look at how your business runs and tell you plainly where AI pays for itself, and where it does not.

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Email us at info@virdar.co