Enterprise search ROI calculator
Calculate how much your organization loses to inefficient search and how quickly AI-powered enterprise search pays for itself.
Calculate your ROI
Your results
Annual productivity loss
$19.1M
Annual savings with QueryNow
$11.5M
3-year ROI
20764%
Payback period
1 months
Based on McKinsey research: employees spend 1.8 hours/day searching for information.
QueryNow Search reduces search time by 60% on average.
QueryNow cost: $75K one-time + $90K Azure infrastructure (3 years).
The research behind the numbers
1.8 hours
per day spent searching for information
McKinsey Global Institute
$31.5B
lost annually by Fortune 500 from failed knowledge sharing
International Data Corporation
391%
ROI from enterprise search implementation
Forrester Total Economic Impact
< 6 months
typical payback period for enterprise AI search
Forrester TEI Study
Compare 3-year vendor costs
3-year total cost of ownership
Glean
$1.8M
M365 Copilot
$1.1M
QueryNow Search
$165K
Save $1.6M vs Glean and $915K vs Copilot over 3 years with QueryNow Search.
Building the business case
Quantify the productivity loss
Use the calculator above with your actual employee count and average salary. Most organizations find the annual cost of inefficient search exceeds $1M.
Compare vendor options
Get quotes from Glean, evaluate Copilot licensing costs, and compare against QueryNow's one-time deployment fee. Include 3-year TCO, not just first-year cost.
Factor in qualitative benefits
Faster onboarding, reduced IT ticket volume, better compliance posture, and improved employee satisfaction are real benefits that don't appear in a TCO spreadsheet.
Present to leadership
Frame the decision as: "We lose $X million per year to inefficient search. We can fix it for a one-time investment of $75K, not a $600K annual subscription."
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