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BUSINESS CASE

Calculate Your AI Governance ROI.

Uncontrolled AI in regulated environments creates measurable financial exposure. Arbitex delivers ROI on three dimensions — before you ever calculate the cost of a breach.

Three Dimensions of ROI

The business case for AI governance.

Most enterprise buying decisions involve all three pillars. Lead with the one most relevant to your audience — the others are additive.

Risk Avoidance

Breach costs and regulatory fines dwarf governance infrastructure.

A single data breach in healthcare averages $9.77M. In financial services: $6.08M. A single EU AI Act violation can reach €35M or 7% of global annual turnover.

$9.77Mavg. healthcare breach cost
€35Mmax EU AI Act fine

Breach cost data: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024. Fine ranges: EU AI Act Article 99 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). Actual fines depend on specific circumstances, cooperation, and jurisdiction.

Build vs. Buy

Building internally takes a dedicated engineering team and 12+ months.

At fully-loaded engineering costs, that is $1.25M–$1.9M per year — before maintenance, compliance updates, and provider API changes. Arbitex deploys in days.

$1.25M+estimated annual build cost
Daysto Arbitex production

Build cost based on industry salary benchmarks for senior engineering roles. Estimate assumes 5 FTE at $250K–$380K fully loaded. Your numbers may vary.

Token Cost Visibility

Track every token. Control every dollar.

Arbitex tracks token consumption per provider, per department, and per user. Set budget caps and usage quotas to prevent cost overruns — with real-time alerts before limits are reached.

Per-tokencost attribution by provider
Real-timebudget enforcement and alerts

Cost analytics cover all routed providers. Budget enforcement applies at the organization, department, and individual user level.

ROI Estimator

Estimate your exposure and savings.

Enter your organization profile to see a conservative estimate of your AI governance ROI. All math runs in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere.

Risk Exposure

$9.77M

estimated annual breach exposure

Based on industry average breach cost. Does not include regulatory fines.

Build Cost

$1.25M

estimated annual internal build cost

5 FTE senior engineers at industry salary benchmarks. Your cost may be lower or higher.

Suggested Tier

Professional

recommended Arbitex plan

Based on organization size and industry. Talk to us for exact pricing.

These estimates are conservative starting points based on published industry data and salary benchmarks. They are intended to frame the business case, not replace a detailed analysis. Talk to an Arbitex engineer for a calculation specific to your environment.

Usage-Based ROI

See what governance saves at your scale.

Enter your AI usage profile to estimate the cost of manual review, risk exposure from uninspected traffic, and compliance overhead — then see what Arbitex eliminates. All math runs in your browser.

Cost Savings

$187K

annual savings vs manual review

Based on analyst time to manually review flagged requests at industry salary benchmarks.

Risk Reduction

90,000

sensitive requests caught per month

Requests containing PII, credentials, or regulated data that would pass uninspected without DLP.

Compliance Time

520 hrs

annual compliance hours saved

tamper-proof audit logs and compliance evidence packs eliminate manual log assembly and examiner prep.

Estimates use conservative assumptions: $85/hr fully-loaded analyst cost, 3-minute average manual review time per flagged request, and 40 hours/month baseline compliance overhead. Your actual savings depend on your industry, team size, and regulatory requirements.

Vendor Cost Comparison

What does the point-solution stack cost?

Many enterprises assemble AI governance from multiple vendors — DLP, identity, audit logging, policy management. Use the slider to see how the stack total compares to a consolidated platform.

Point solutions
$300K–$600K / yr
Arbitex Gateway
One consolidated platform

Point-solution estimates based on published list prices for enterprise DLP, CASB/SSE, and identity governance tools ($150K–$300K per vendor per year at mid-market contract sizes). Actual pricing varies.Talk to us for a specific comparison.

Build vs. Buy — Time to Value

How long does an internal build actually take?

Internal AI governance builds consistently run 18–36 months before reaching production maturity. Arbitex deploys in days. The gap is measurable exposure — every week without governance is a week AI runs uninspected.

Internal build
18–36 months
$1.25M–$1.9M / year · 5–10 engineers · ongoing maintenance
Arbitex Gateway
Days
Docker Compose or Kubernetes · policy bundles pre-built · provider updates included
Months 1–6
Architecture and scoping

DLP pipeline design, provider API abstraction, policy engine scoping. Security review. No enforcement in production.

Months 7–18
Build and initial deployment

Pattern library, NER models, audit log schema, identity integration. First production traffic — limited coverage.

Months 19–36
Compliance hardening

Compliance bundles, audit export formats, examiner readiness. Provider churn and maintenance begin consuming roadmap capacity.

Compliance Risk

Regulatory penalty ranges by framework.

AI governance failures in regulated industries carry measurable financial consequences. These are published penalty ranges — not hypotheticals. A single enforcement action in healthcare or financial services can exceed the cost of enterprise AI governance infrastructure by an order of magnitude.

HIPAA
$100 – $50,000
per violation
Up to $1.9M / year per category

45 CFR §160.404. Criminal penalties up to $250K + 10 years imprisonment for willful disclosure. AI-assisted PHI handling is a covered activity.

GLBA
$100,000
per violation
$10,000 per officer per day

15 U.S.C. §6823. Covers financial institutions subject to the Safeguards Rule — including insurers offering financial products. NPI handling failures are in scope.

SOX
$1M – $5M
civil penalties
Up to 20 years imprisonment (criminal)

15 U.S.C. §7241–7244. IT control failures supporting financial reporting — including AI systems in scope for SOX §404 — are subject to SEC enforcement.

Penalty figures from published statutes and regulations. Actual penalties depend on violation severity, cooperation, prior history, and jurisdiction. This is not legal advice. Consult qualified legal counsel for your specific situation.

The Combined Case

Governance infrastructure that pays for itself.

Arbitex delivers measurable ROI on three dimensions. Risk avoidance alone — governance infrastructure that holds up under regulatory examination — justifies the cost. Token optimization and build-vs-buy economics are additive benefits.

Risk avoidanceGovernance that produces demonstrable control — the kind that holds up under regulatory examination and reduces breach exposure.
Build vs. buyDays to production vs. 12+ months and $1.25M–$1.9M per year for an equivalent internal build.
Token cost visibilityPer-provider cost tracking, budget caps, and usage quotas give finance and engineering shared visibility into AI spend.

Build the business case for your procurement review.

Arbitex engineers can walk through the specific risk vectors, compliance controls, and cost governance mechanisms relevant to your environment. Bring your compliance team.