A sensible way to estimate the return on an AI investment for a Canadian business.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Calculating ROI on AI keeps projects honest. Here is a sensible way for a Canadian business to estimate return before and after a project.
Set a baseline first
You cannot measure return without a starting point — time spent, error rate, response time, or cost for the target task. Capture it before you build.
Estimate the gain realistically
Estimate time or cost saved per unit times volume, minus the AI’s run cost and oversight. Be conservative; count only what you can measure, and remember the first win is usually narrow.
Track after launch
Compare actuals against the baseline and the estimate. osFoundry is a model-agnostic, bring-your-own-key (BYOK) AI orchestration platform — usage-based pricing with no per-seat fees, local-first and self-hostable, with per-region data pinning (US/EU/JP) or deployment into your own cloud. Usage-based pricing makes the cost side easy to track. Canadian funding can improve ROI — see our funding guides.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Canadian businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.