KPI benchmark

How many hours does AI save?

Total employee hours saved per year.

How to measure it

Time saved per task multiplied by annual task volume, validated by capacity actually released.

Across the library

45 reported values (hours), listed per use case below. Absolute volumes depend on organization size and are not pooled.

Higher is better. Unit: hours.

Reported values by use case

AI for chargeback and representment operations

AI agent for travel and expense report audit

AI document intelligence for unstructured forms and documents

AI assistant for developers integrating a company's APIs

  • Mapboxat least 40,000 hours · vendor claim
  • CircleCIat least 500 hours · vendor claim

AI assistant for student enrollment and student services

AI income and document verification for mortgage underwriting

AI meeting summarization and action items

AI coding assistant for software developers

  • CME Groupat least 10.5 hours · vendor claim

AI for legacy code modernization

Use cases that should track hours saved

Frequently asked questions

How do you measure hours saved?
Time saved per task multiplied by annual task volume, validated by capacity actually released.
Where do these hours saved numbers come from?
From public AI deployments in the Blits.ai AI Use Case Library. Every value is quoted from a named source, each organization counts once, and "up to" claims are listed but left out of the median.