// Content cadence ROI calculator

Your cadence, twelve months from now.

Plug in your numbers. The math runs live. The comparison against a fractional AI Content Department is at the bottom of the page.

// Inputs
4
030
$800
$50$5,000
12 mo
1 mo36 mo
400
105000
1.5%
0.1%5%
Monthly leads after 12 months
1,210
Projected monthly leads with AI Content Department cadence stacked on your existing library. Assumes the same 400 organic visits per article and 1.5% conversion rate you set above.
Monthly leads · today
202
current cadence × decay
Monthly leads · AI dept
1,210
after 12 months
Leads lift · monthly
+1,008
net new pipeline
Cost per article · today
$800
what you pay now
Cost per article · AI
$375
$7,500 ÷ 20 articles
Year-1 cost delta
+$51,600
more than today
// Your cadence vs AI Content Department
Your current cadence
$38,400/ year
4 articles/mo · $800 each
202 monthly leads today
48 articles in library
AI Content Department
$90,000/ year flat
20 articles/mo · $375 each
1,210 monthly leads after 12 months
288 articles in library
Monthly leads lift
+1,008
Monthly traffic lift
+67,200
Cost per article delta
$425 less
+1,008 monthly leads from 20 articles a month at a lower cost per article.
// What now?

The numbers above run for hundreds of EOI clients.

If they look right and the gap is meaningful, apply for a 14-day content sprint. If you want to talk through the assumptions first, talk to Roy.

// How the math runs

Library size: your articles per month × months live. A site publishing 4 articles a month for a year carries a 48-article library. Each article keeps earning traffic long after it ships, which is why cadence compounds.

SEO compounding + decay: we multiply the library by your stated organic visits per article and apply a 0.7 decay factor. The decay covers two realities: older articles lose ranking over time, and not every article hits its average. Without the decay we would be cooking the numbers in our own favour. Industry typical is 300 to 600 monthly visits per article after 6 months of indexing.

Leads: monthly organic traffic × your visitor to lead rate. The rate is yours to set. 1 to 2% is honest for a B2B site with clear CTAs. Under 1% means weaker CTAs. Over 3% means either a strong free resource or a bottom-funnel landing page mix.

Cost per article today: what you said you pay. This is the all-in number, not the writing-line-item number. If your $10K agency retainer ships 4 articles, your true cost per article is $2,500 even though the invoice line for writing is lower.

AI projection: $7,500 monthly retainer ÷ 20 long-form articles per month = $375 per article. We stack 12 months of 20-article cadence on top of your current library and re-run the same traffic and lead math. Same decay, same conversion rate, larger library.

Honest caveats: SEO lift assumes the articles target real search demand and ship at competitive quality. Both are part of the offering, but neither is automatic. The 12-month traffic projection assumes the content stays indexed and the site has reasonable authority.