# Quality-adjusted ROI

AI return calculated after accounting for output quality, error rates, human rework, safety, and business usability.

The corrective to a return figure computed on raw output volume alone. A tool that produces twice the output but requires constant human correction has not actually doubled useful capacity — quality-adjusted ROI is what is left after netting out the rework that raw-output ROI ignores.

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