FINANCE · RISK & OPERATIONS
Review desks already price their output in minutes
AML triage, contract review, call handling — the most labor-dense desks in finance. Minutes per case, false-positive rate, the cost of a miss: the metrics already exist. Easy baseline, clean ledger.
−60% review volume · HSBC
360k hours→0 contract review · JPMorgan
$4.4M/yr call costs · Neighborhood CU
YOUR NUMBERSA
200-seat support desk → ≈
120 seats of workload; a
10-person review team →
3 saved. Exact figures come out in week one of a Bootcamp.
Finance: 5 cases →
ENERGY · INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS
Routine paperwork and dispatch show numbers in four weeks
Inspection reports, ticket triage, process tuning — the routine desks of asset-heavy industries. Volume is high and unit prices are clear; the first workflow usually produces acceptable, auditable numbers within four weeks.
$500M/yr full value chain · ADNOC
+$2.8M/yr coal washing · Shandong Energy
−20% power water plants · Jacobs
YOUR NUMBERSLoss per hour of downtime × annual downtime hours ×
30% — the starting math for predictive maintenance alone.
Energy & industry: 4 cases →
MANUFACTURING · QA & LINES
QA lines are costed by headcount, so the math is direct
Visual QA, defect analysis, supplier negotiation. How much of the inspection workload AI takes on, and where the miss rate lands — one sentence each.
≈140 inspectors · TCL CSOT
−67% defects · Pegatron
−3% procurement 2,000 suppliers · Walmart
RETAIL · SERVICES & SMEs
You don't have to be a giant to run this ledger
Support cover, store forecasting, operations patrol — a 400-person company absorbed seven times the support volume without hiring, and a regional credit union saved $4.4M a year on one hotline. The thicker the payroll, the easier the math.
×7, +0 hires support · Synthesia
1,200 redeployed · Onewo
+10–15 pts forecasts · Yum China
Taking your business abroad? That's its own line: Global — MEA market entry →