ROI · AEC Firm Financial Case

What is your firm leaving on the table?

For a 30-person AEC firm, the hidden cost of manual proposal writing, report drafting, and archive searches adds up to over $400,000 in lost billable capacity every year. That's not overhead, it's recoverable.

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$599,040
Annual billable capacity recovered

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$180
Average billing rate for a senior engineer or PM at a mid-size AEC firm
8 hrs
Average hours per week per senior staff member spent on AI-automatable tasks
6 wk
Average time for a firm to break even on the Wukanda engagement cost

Where the cost is hiding in your firm.

Task type Hours/week lost Annual cost per person Wukanda recovery
Proposal boilerplate writing 2.5 hrs $23,400 ~85%
Report and memo drafting 2.0 hrs $18,720 ~70%
Project archive and file search 2.0 hrs $18,720 ~90%
Estimating and fee schedule prep 1.5 hrs $14,040 ~60%
Total per senior staff member 8 hrs/wk $74,880/yr ~78% avg

Assumes 52 weeks/year, no vacation deduction. Recovery rates are estimates based on reported outcomes from current Wukanda clients.

Small Firm
15–40 staff
$15–22K
2 Wukanda workflows configured
Proposal + Knowledge Search
~4 senior staff trained
Typical ROI: 3–4 months
Large Firm
120–300 staff
$40–55K
4 workflows + custom configuration
Department-level rollout
15+ staff trained
Typical ROI: 4–6 weeks
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