Question 2 of 5 · How much time came back?

12 hours came back this month, counted by the 7 people who did the work — $540 at $45 an hour.

attested — counted by the people who did the work, gained minus lost·$45 an hour, the assumed hourly cost of your people until you set your own · Set it

A ledger with a debit column — the number is allowed to go down.

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Attested — counted by the person who did the work, not modeled by Aristo.

Net hours — hours gained minus hours lost.

Report 3 of 3 — the License Report found the money, the Frontier Firm Report turned it on, this is what came back.Question 2 · 3 of 7 ← →

Question 2 · How much time came back?

12 hours came back, counted by the 7 people who did the work. That is $540 a month.

This benchmarks 1:1 against a Microsoft Labs read — with a control group behind it.See the proof

How we counted this

the debit column | Microsoft’s own currency

Net minutes people recorded themselves, gained minus lost, aggregated across a floor of five attesters and converted to hours. Below five people this report shows nothing at all rather than a number a small group would make personally identifiable.

Gained, minus lost. The green bar is moments people marked as time they got back, one job at a time. The amber bar is the time Aristo cost somebody — they said so, and it is subtracted in the same ledger. A ledger with a debit column is the only self-reported number a CFO can defend.

The same currency Microsoft measures. Microsoft's Copilot Analytics Labs publishes agent-assisted hours as its value currency, so this figure and a Labs read are quoted in the same unit and benchmark 1:1. The difference is where the number comes from: Labs estimates the value; Aristo pairs a counted, self-attested number with a never-nudged control group, which is Question 3.

Aristo's own planning estimate is deliberately absent from this page. An activity-based projection of hours saved exists in this product and is useful for planning, but it is a parameter multiplied by a headcount. It is not evidence, so it is not printed beside a figure a board will treat as one.attested

So what: this is the number every AI vendor quotes and almost none of them count. Aristo's version is net and self-attested: the people who did the work record the time they got back, and the time it cost them is subtracted in the same ledger. A figure with a debit column is the only self-reported number a CFO can take into a board meeting.

You can now decide: whether to quote this figure externally. It is in the same unit Microsoft's Copilot Analytics Labs publishes, so it benchmarks against a Labs read directly — with a control group behind it that a Labs read does not have.

Defined: Attested — counted by the person who did the work, not modeled by Aristo. Net hours — hours gained minus hours lost; the number is allowed to go down. Agent-assisted hours — the value currency Microsoft's Copilot Analytics Labs publishes; this figure is quoted in the same unit. Attester floor — the five-person minimum below which no hours figure is shown at all.

See the hours ledger, with its debit column

gained · lost · who counted them

Fig 3 · Time returned, counted by the people who returned it

12 net hours returned

attested

Worth $540 a month at the assumed hourly cost of your people, $45 an hour until you set your own assumption, across 7 people counting their own time.