When does Sophia
pay back the cash?

Enter your own funnel and margin, and the calculator works out:

  • whether and in which month the cash you spend on Sophia comes back
  • the result and the return over 12, 24, 36 or 60 months
  • every cost line, including your own provider accounts and server

Scenario results are based on the assumptions you enter. They are not a HumanOps performance guarantee.

Your scenario assumptions

Your commercial funnel

The starting values are an example that shows how the calculator works. They are not results measured at a HumanOps customer, so replace them with your own numbers.

Count only the closed-won opportunities Sophia adds. If some of these buyers would reach you through your current form or other channels anyway, lower the rates until only the extra ones are left.

Cash payback
Recurring cost a month
Provider cost a month
    What Sophia costs your company

    Every cost line, and who you pay

    LinePaid toAmount

    Provider amounts use the list prices published on 2026-10-10, converted at the European Central Bank rate of 2026-10-09, 1 euro to 1.1206 US dollars. HumanOps adds no markup, and none of the provider or server amounts is paid to HumanOps.

    This view counts cash as it leaves and arrives. The €9,000 implementation fee is paid in month 0, the monthly costs start in month 1, and gross margin starts once the first conversations have reached closed-won.

    AfterGross marginCash costsNet resultReturn

    Return is cumulative gross margin minus cumulative cash costs, divided by cumulative cash costs.

    Optional

    Time your sales team gets back

    Each held meeting arrives with the buyer’s questions answered and the qualification written down. If that saves your team time, enter what the time is worth. It is an estimate of operational value and only enters the cash payback when you switch it on.

    How implementation runs

    Live on your website in 10 business days

    Plan, not yet measured at a customer

    The Sophia Implementation Services fee, paid once, covers a fixed scope: one website, one product family, 15 to 30 approved sources, one booking flow, one CRM write, one language, one approver, installed on your own server. Your team spends about 40 hours across the two weeks and names five roles before day 1: project owner, the salesperson who knows your buyer questions, content owner, approver, and a web and IT contact. One person can hold several.

    1. Week 1

      Days 1 to 2

      Kick-off, your buyers, how you sell, and the qualification model.

    2. Week 1

      Days 3 to 4

      Your material becomes facts your approver signs off, each source with an owner and a review date.

    3. Week 1

      Day 5

      Tone, slides, handoff path and privacy settings. Sophia is installed on your server.

    4. Week 2

      Days 6 to 8

      Your sales team adds 10 to 20 real buyer questions to the test suite. Two fix rounds.

    5. Week 2

      Day 9

      Acceptance walkthrough and go-live on your website.

    6. Week 2

      Day 10

      Administrator training, runbook and sign-off.

    What you have on day 10

    • Sophia live on your website, answering from your approved knowledge only.
    • Qualification, booking in the conversation, a record in your CRM, and handoffs with transcript, summary and qualification.
    • A test suite that runs before every release, a trained administrator, a runbook, and every provider account in your company’s own name.
    • Managed Optimisation, the monthly service, takes over from here.

    What can make it longer

    • Ten business days assume your team answers within one business day.
    • Material that is image-only PDFs or scattered across many systems.
    • No CRM sandbox in the first days, or more than one approver.
    • The avatar account can take 1 to 10 days to open, so Sophia can go live by voice and text first.
    • Adding products, markets, languages or websites is a larger scope with its own quote and plan.

    No customer implementation has run yet. The first ones will show whether this schedule holds. Until then it is a plan, not a record.

    Assumptions

    How we count: The definition, base and source of every word in this funnel.

    Next step

    Walk through this business case with us

    Book 30 minutes and bring these numbers. We go through each assumption with you and put the scope and the price in writing.

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