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No. 07 · ROI Calculator · Brain Buddy AI / Sydney

Drag two sliders. See if we are worth it.

A live estimate of what managed SEO and an AI lead agent could mean for your numbers. Australian defaults, every assumption stated, all of it yours to adjust. No sign-up, no PDF wall, no sales call required.

01

The instrument.

Step 01 · Pick your patch

Picking an industry sets sensible defaults. Tweak from there.

Step 02 · Your numbers

1,800 visits

Visitors arriving from Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude

3.5%

What share of visitors fill a form, call, or start a chat

$850

One job, project, or first-year LTV

Step 03 · How brave are you feeling?

Steady growth without heroic assumptions.

Step 04 · Investment

$2,000 / mo

The monthly budget you want the model to justify. Actual plans are scoped on a strategy call.

Your 12-month estimate

Estimated net return after fees, on your assumptions

$64,498

Strong. If the assumptions hold, the fee is not the question.

ROI multiplier
3.7x
Break-even
Month 6
12-month est. return
$88,498
Total invested
$24,000

The middle path. Meaningful movement, no heroics assumed.

These are estimates built on the stated assumptions, not measured results. Actual outcomes depend on industry, market, and execution. See the methodology below for the maths.

Figure 01 · The 12-month curve

Where the return line crosses the invested line, you are in profit.

$0$22,125$44,249$66,374$88,498M1M4M7M10M12Break-even · M6Cumulative returnCumulative invested

Reading the defaults

Trades defaults assume modest traffic, decent job values, and a lot of enquiries landing in the evening when nobody can answer the phone. If your average job is bigger or smaller, drag the value slider; it moves everything.

Trades · editorial defaults, yours to overwrite

Interactive estimate · Every assumption stated · Workings below
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Every number, shown its working.

We will not hide the assumptions behind a pretty chart. Here is exactly how the model arrives at each figure.

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SEO Agent maths

Baseline monthly revenue equals traffic times conversion rate times average value. Each scenario applies an S-curve traffic ramp over 12 months (Cautious 1.35x, Realistic 1.8x, Ambitious 2.6x) plus a conversion lift (8%, 20%, or 30%). Most growth lands in months 6 to 12, the way SEO actually compounds.

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From revenue to credited return

We do not credit gross revenue. Each industry has a gross margin applied (Trades 35%, Hospitality 25%, Professional 55%, Health 45%) so the return is profit, not turnover. Then a 70% attribution factor is applied to acknowledge that some growth would have happened anyway. Conservative on purpose.

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AI Agent maths

Staff savings equal hours per week times weeks per month times hourly cost times the scenario deflection rate (22%, 35%, or 50%). Recovered revenue takes 50% of enquiries that arrive after hours, captures a share of them (20%, 35%, or 50%), converts at a 12% baseline times the scenario lift, multiplies by average value, then applies the same industry gross margin and 70% attribution.

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Anchors and honesty

Every default is a stated assumption, not a measured client outcome, and the sliders exist so you can replace our numbers with yours. The Cautious scenario is genuinely cautious. The Ambitious scenario is the ceiling, not the plan. Whatever the model says, your real number depends on market, competition, and execution, which is why we label everything on this page an estimate.

Numbers on a slider are a starting point.Numbers on your live site are the proof.

Run the free audit to see exactly where you are invisible today, which competitors are being recommended instead, and what it would take to close the gap. Sixty seconds, no card.

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