AI Operating Cost Audit — five roles, finance-grade read.
A self-serve $2k–$5k audit: the same engine run across five roles, with NPV, IRR, and payback per role against your loaded labor cost. Department and org-wide scopes are sales-assisted above it.
Sits in the workforce-analytics layer above your HRIS — partners with Hibob / Workday / Rippling, not against them. Privacy-first by construction.
What ships when
Exactly what works today versus what's on the roadmap — so you can scope before you spend procurement time.
Individual Wagecards with the full 9-axis methodology. Investment View per-role (NPV, IRR, Payback, cash-flow table). Anonymous adoption signals. Open methodology, monthly refresh. Org preview — paste 50 roles, see a non-persistent heatmap + org-level financial roll-up right now.
Persistent org accounts. CSV ingest for full JD list. Manual analyst engagement available for design partners. JD-parser ingesting from Greenhouse / Lever / Workday CSV exports.
OAuth connectors: Workday, Greenhouse, JIRA, GitHub, Slack. SSO (Okta, Entra). SCIM provisioning. Per-seat self-serve billing.
Deep calibration via Slack / Notion / Confluence sampling. Custom role taxonomy extensions. Audit logs, IP allowlist, regional data residency. On-prem option.
What's in the dashboard
By team, by role
Org heatmap
Every team and role rendered against the four-class substitution taxonomy — replaceable / AI-augmented / human-led + AI-assisted / human-critical. Drill from company to team to role. Filter by department, level, or geography.
NPV · IRR · Payback Period
Financial projection
For any planned AI rollout, see year-1 to year-5 NPV under your own discount rate, IRR, and payback period — calibrated to your actual loaded labor cost and the matrix's current per-task operational cost. Ships with methodology v1.5.
From your own employees, anonymous
Adoption signals
Opt-in 15-second flow your employees can run after computing their personal Wagecard. Distributions appear in the org dashboard only above a 5-person aggregation floor. Never per person.
Methodology versioned, dashboard auto-updates
Continuous refresh
Every Wagecard records the matrix version it was computed with. When v1.5 ships, the dashboard recomputes against the new matrix automatically. No re-engagement, no “refresh purchase.”
Connectors (Q3 2026)
OAuth integrations ship in Q3 2026. Until then, design partners ingest via CSV upload (org chart + JD list) — the same engine runs on either ingest method.
HRIS + ATS
- Workday
- BambooHR
- Rippling
- Personio
- Greenhouse
- Lever
- Ashby
Tickets, meeting taxonomy, engineering
- JIRA
- Linear
- Asana
- Google Calendar
- Outlook
- GitHub
- GitLab
Sampling, support + sales orgs
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Notion
- Zendesk
- Intercom
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
First-party connectors at GA: Workday, Greenhouse, JIRA, GitHub, Slack. Others via SCIM or CSV upload at launch; native OAuth shipping by Q3 2026 based on customer demand.
Pricing
One self-serve tier you can buy with a credit card. Two sales-assisted tiers above it for larger scope. Indicative pre-launch; final terms at scoping call.
5 roles, 1 team
$2k – $5k
- AI Operating Cost Audit on 5 roles you pick
- Per-role NPV / IRR / Payback against your loaded labor cost
- Four-class substitution distribution per role
- Capability-matrix version stamped on every output
- Credit card, no procurement, no SOW
- Open methodology you can hand to your CFO
Card checkout via Stripe. Invoice issued automatically; 14-day full refund, no questions.
One department, sales-assisted
$25k
- Up to 25 roles across one department
- JD ingestion via CSV (Greenhouse / Lever / Workday export)
- Manager-readable rollup + per-role detail
- One scoping call + one delivery review
Org-wide, sales-assisted
$100k+
- Org-wide scope; sales-assisted with scoping call
- CSV ingestion for full JD list and org chart
- Custom role taxonomy extensions
- Audit logs and data-handling agreement
- Optional ongoing refresh as v1.5 ships
Self-serve is the primary path. The two sales-assisted tiers exist for orgs that need wider scope than five roles; they take a scoping call first. We are not selling per-seat SaaS at pre-launch — the audit is the unit of work.
How we handle privacy
A dashboard that names individuals isn't a useful product — it's a liability. Four rules govern every deployment:
Aggregation floor
No insight is computed from fewer than five individuals. Smaller teams roll up.
No per-person disclosure
The deepest unit of analysis is a role within a team. Never a named person.
Data minimization + discard
Per-person raw signal is parsed, aggregated, then discarded on a rolling 30-day window.
Audit trail
Every output traces to the source ingested and the methodology version — reproducible for legal and audit.
Both the methodology and the privacy policy are open and versioned.
Request an audit demo
For Department ($25k) and Enterprise ($100k+) scopes. Self-serve $2k–$5k is credit-card checkout — no form needed. Tell us the decision the audit will inform; we reply within one business day.
What's in the audit
Per-role NPV / IRR / payback
Each role priced against your loaded labor cost.
Four-class substitution mix, per role
Replaceable, AI-augmented, human-led + AI-assisted, human-critical.
Capability-vs-reliability gap
Where unsupervised AI gets reversed — the cost the license price hides.
Open methodology
Every number traceable to the rubric and its capability-matrix version.
How it works
- 1
Send the request
One or two sentences on the decision it informs.
- 2
Reply within one business day
From hello@wagecore.ai — a calendar link and a couple of scoping questions.
- 3
Scoping call, then the audit
The analyst pass is bundled into the price, not a separate engagement.
You talk to the founder, not an SDR. Open, versioned methodology. No marketing list, no third-party sharing — the form goes straight to Andrei.
Join the business waitlist
Not ready to scope an audit yet? Drop your work email and we'll send a quarterly digest of new methodology updates and one or two relevant case reads.
Prefer email? Reach hello@wagecore.ai directly — Andrei reads inbound within 24 hours.
Common questions
Is this software, consulting, or both?
Do you need our employees to fill out a questionnaire?
If the methodology is open, why pay?
What if our JDs are out of date?
Does this work for non-knowledge-work roles?
Can we run this against a competitor's org?
How is this different from Visier, Eightfold, or Faethm-Pearson?
Paste 50 roles and watch the math, before you scope.
The org preview runs the same engine on a non-persistent heatmap — no account, no procurement. The fastest way to judge the read.
Want the same math for your team?
Self-serve org audit covers up to 5 roles with NPV/IRR/Payback. Above HRIS, not against it — methodology open and versioned monthly.