Switch Calculator
What you save when you stop cobbling.
Three inputs. Indicative savings on year-1, year-2+, person-days freed, and the trust uplift your audit committee actually cares about. Industry-benchmarked, transparent assumptions, no guaranteed-ROI claims.
Your inputs
Includes Big-4 sustainability advisory, audit-prep, internal compliance time, consultant deliverables.
Total time across CFO, CSO, audit, IT, and consultants per quarterly cycle.
Your indicative savings on switch
Recommended pilot tier
Multi-Site Pilot
$75K - $150K pilot pricing - 13-week delivery
Year-1 net savings
$148K
Year-2+ annual savings
$204K
Payback window
5 months
Person-days freed per year
562 days
≈ 2.4 FTE released
Redeployed to strategic ESG
337 days
At 60% redeployment ratio
Trust uplift
The savings are the easy half. The trust uplift is the moat.
Audit committee
Audit-defensible by construction
Every value in the report resolves to its source evidence. Auditors don't sample — they trace. Footnote disputes go away.
Regulator
Verifiable independently
Re-render any historical report; SHA-256 fingerprint matches exactly. RFC 3161 trusted timestamp verifies via openssl, no platform trust required.
Investor due diligence
From weeks to hours
Six-sidecar audit trail per render. DD questions answered with a dataset_id, not a consultant call-back.
Board distribution
Sign-off without disputes
Disclosure language survives the legal review. Strict-readiness vocabulary throughout - no SBTi-certified, no Net-Zero-validated, no carbon-credits-issued unless authorized third parties have done so.
Methodology & assumptions
How the numbers are computed
- Cost-efficiency factor (65% reduction): based on Big-4 sustainability advisory pricing tables and post-deploy customer interviews. Captures consultant fee reduction, audit-prep automation, and internal compliance time recovery.
- Automation-efficiency factor (78% reduction in person-days): based on professional-time surveys for ESG report production cycles, weighted across CFO, CSO, audit, IT, and consultant roles.
- Strategic redeployment ratio (60%): conservative estimate of freed person-time that moves into strategic ESG work (target-setting, supplier engagement, decarbonization roadmapping) versus capacity recovery.
- Year-2+ renewal at 50% of year-1 pilot cost: typical EcoVeraZ production-tier pricing for established customers with existing ingestion plumbing.
- Pilot tier mapping based on number of sites in scope. See [Pilot Charter](/sectors) for exact scope per tier.
Important: The calculator surfaces an indicative band based on industry benchmarks. Actual results depend on customer-specific factors including site complexity, existing ingestion infrastructure, framework reporting scope, and current consultant relationships. EcoVeraZ does not guarantee any specific ROI; we make audit-defensibility automatic and let the customer-specific savings settle from there.