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title: "SOX Automation ROI Calculator"
description: "A vendor-neutral calculator: enter control counts, testing hours, co-sourcing share and blended rates to see annual savings and payback period."
url: "https://usebead.ai/roi"
---

# Economics of Agentic SOX testing

Calculate savings for your team by adjusting the values. Target positive payback in 4-6 months.

Interactive calculator for the model described below, with every input adjustable.

## The model at its defaults

The calculator estimates what testing with AI agents saves a SOX program in its first year. It prices a baseline from your control mix, testing hours and blended rates, applies automation and quality factors to testing and evidence-gathering work, then nets the cost of the software and implementation. These are its default assumptions, and every one is adjustable above.

### Default control mix

| Control type | Controls | Hours per control |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ITGCs (Access, change mgmt, ops) | 35 | 6 |
| Manual business-process (Journal review, approvals) | 80 | 10 |
| Automated app controls (System-enforced) | 25 | 2 |
| Key reports & IPE (Reports relied upon) | 30 | 8 |
| Management review (MRCs, judgment-heavy) | 20 | 12 |
| Entity-level (Tone, oversight) | 10 | 5 |

### Other defaults

The defaults assume two testing cycles a year, an in-house rate of $150/h, and a co-sourcing rate of $325/h covering 40% of testing. Evidence gathering runs at 1× testing hours, priced at $100/h, with 25% of requests reworked. Vendor subscription $100,000 a year with no one-time implementation fee. The subscription default is a placeholder for the quote you are evaluating, not Bead's price.

### What the defaults produce

| Result | At the defaults |
| --- | --- |
| Baseline testing and evidence effort | 6,758 hours a year |
| Baseline annual cost | $1,057,350 |
| Annual savings from automation | $335,681 |
| First-year software and implementation cost | $114,080 |
| Net first-year impact | $221,601 |
| Simple payback | 4.1 months |