For the CEO, COO, or owner who has to sign for the spend. Put in your own numbers, see an order-of-magnitude annual opportunity and a simple payback against what a Harmony pilot actually costs, then walk into the board meeting with a case you can defend line by line.
Read this first · How the math works
There are no invented numbers on this page. Every figure in your case is one of two things: a number you type in about your own plants, or a fact Harmony publishes about its own pilot. We do not use industry averages, adoption rates, or vendor benchmarks, because none of those would survive a board that knows your floor better than we do.
Harmony's pilot is a fixed, one time engagement of $15,000 to $20,000. It runs four to six weeks, and there is working software in front of your floor by the end of the pilot. Those are the only outside numbers here, and they are the ones your payback is measured against.
The case a P&L owner actually has to make
The AI decision is not a technology decision on your desk. It is a capital allocation decision. The board does not want a demo, it wants to know what a dollar buys and when it comes back. The trouble is that most AI pitches lead with the model and bury the money, so you are left defending a number you did not build.
This builder does it the other way around. It starts from the cost you already carry: the loaded hours your people spend re-keying numbers that already exist, the hours of downtime you eat every week, and the giveaway and scrap you write off every year. Those are your own figures, not ours. It totals them into an order-of-magnitude annual opportunity, then measures a Harmony pilot against it. The output is a one paragraph case you can paste straight into a board deck.
Enter your own numbers
Use figures you can defend. If you are not sure of one, put in a conservative low number: the case is stronger when the inputs are ones nobody in the room can argue with. Leave a field blank and it counts as zero.
How many production sites this case covers.
plants
Total across those plants. Used only to show the opportunity as a share of your revenue.
$per year
Hours your team spends typing numbers that already exist somewhere else. Per plant, in a normal week.
hrs / wk
Re-keying: $0 per year
Unplanned stopped hours on a normal week, per plant. Valued below at your loaded labor rate only, so it stays conservative.
hrs / wk
Downtime, labor only: $0 per year
Total across all plants. Overfill, off-spec, rework, and scrap you write off in a year.
$per year
Giveaway and scrap: $0 per year
Fully loaded cost of an hour of the labor above, wages plus burden.
Payback = Harmony pilot cost ($15,000 to $20,000) ÷ annual opportunity, expressed as time
Your order-of-magnitude annual opportunity
$0
Total of your own re-keying, downtime, and giveaway inputs
A Harmony pilot pays back in the time shown once you unlock the case.
Enter your numbers above and your estimate builds here in real time.
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You have built the estimate above from your own figures. Enter your work email and the full board-ready summary opens right here: every line item, the payback against Harmony's pilot, and a one paragraph case ready for your deck. A copy goes to your inbox.
The annual opportunity broken into its three line items, each with its formula
Your simple payback against the published $15,000 to $20,000 pilot cost
A one paragraph case, built from your inputs, to paste straight into a board deck
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Your board-ready case
The numbers, the payback, the paragraph
Built entirely from the figures you entered and Harmony's published pilot cost. Change any input above and everything here updates.
Re-keying, per year
$0
hrs × plants × 52 × rate
Downtime, labor only, per year
$0
hrs × plants × 52 × rate
Giveaway and scrap, per year
$0
as entered
Payback on a $15,000 to $20,000 pilot
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pilot ÷ annual opportunity
Order-of-magnitude annual opportunity
$0
re-keying + downtime + giveaway
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What the pilot actually buys, and in what order
The opportunity above is not unlocked by buying a model. It is unlocked by fixing the thing underneath the numbers: records still written by hand, machines whose counts never leave the panel, one person's spreadsheet holding the plant together. That work happens in a set order, and a Harmony pilot starts at the beginning of it.
The sequence your pilot starts
Phase 1. Lay the Data Foundation · Digitization. Records off paper at the station, machines and systems connected over standards like OPC UA, and the data unified into one live layer entered once. The re-keying and giveaway lines above start shrinking here.
Phase 2. Production & Operations Scale. Live machine data, an AI scheduling board, and predictive maintenance before failure. This is where the downtime line moves.
Phase 3. AI-Native Operations. Agents across the floor and the back office act on the live layer while your people approve. This is the payoff the earlier phases pay for.
That is why the pilot is measured against Phase 1 work, not a finished AI rollout. The published $15,000 to $20,000, four to six weeks, working software by the end of the pilot, buys the first move in that sequence: the one that makes every number on this page real and readable. For the per-line detail behind these costs, the ROI Calculators & Tools break each one out, and the AI Readiness Checklist shows whether your floor can support AI yet.
Want us to pressure-test these numbers with you?
Bring your inputs to a working session with a forward-deployed engineer. We will walk your floor, sharpen the figures until they are ones your board cannot argue with, and show you what the live layer looks like.
