Interactive ROI Tool
Data Silo Cost Calculator
Discover how much fragmented data is costing your organization, and how much you could save by connecting it.
Your Organization
Adjust the sliders to match your situation. Results update instantly.
Total number of employees in your organization
CRMs, databases, spreadsheets, SaaS tools, any system where teams store or access data
Industry affects regulatory complexity and data sensitivity
Knowledge workers report losing ~8.2 hours a week to information that already exists
Looking for data, recreating it, and re-answering questions that were answered before. Connecting your technical landscape removes most of that search tax.
Directional industry estimate. Source: APQC knowledge-worker survey, 2021 (self-reported)
Your Current Cost
The Cost of Fragmented Data
Annual Waste
$1.8M
Lost to disconnected data every year
Your Projected Savings
What You Could Recover
Projected Savings
$958K
Recovered annually
Payback Period
2 mo
Time to recoup investment
First-Year ROI
608%
Return on your investment
Based on cloud deployment pricing. On-premise deployments are available for organizations with specific security or compliance requirements. contact us to discuss.
Before vs. After
Annual cost, current state vs. projected with connected data
Projected annual savings of $958K
Where the Money Goes
Breakdown of annual costs from disconnected data
3-Year Projection
3-Year Investment
$400K
Total cost of connected data platform
3-Year Net Savings
$2.9M
Recovered value after all costs
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Methodology & Sources
The benchmarks below are directional, from named analyst and survey sources. Your result is built from your own inputs, not from these figures. Treat them as context, not proof.
Time lost finding information
Knowledge workers report losing about 8.2 hours a week looking for, recreating, and re-answering information that already exists, of which 2.8 hours is pure searching (APQC, 2021).
Knowledge trapped with individuals
About 42% of the knowledge a role needs is unique to the person holding it, and workers lose ~5.3 hours a week waiting for or recreating colleagues' knowledge (Panopto/YouGov, 2018; vendor-sponsored).
Most enterprise data is unstructured
Roughly 80% of the world's data is unstructured, so most of what an organization holds sits outside easy reach (IDC, Data Age 2025).
AI depends on connected data
Gartner forecast that about 60% of AI projects would be abandoned through 2026 without AI-ready data (Gartner, 2025).
The data-management gap
63% of organizations lack, or are unsure they have, the right data management practices for AI (Gartner, 2024).
How to read these numbers
Each is a self-reported survey or analyst estimate, so it varies by organization and year. Use them to frame the size of the problem, then trust the figure the calculator builds from your inputs.
Full Source List
- APQC (2021). Fixing Process & Knowledge Productivity Problems survey.
- Panopto / YouGov (2018). Workplace Knowledge and Productivity Report (vendor-sponsored).
- IDC (2018). Data Age 2025 (Seagate-sponsored) — global datasphere and unstructured-data share.
- Gartner (Feb 2025). ~60% of AI projects abandoned without AI-ready data through 2026.
- Gartner (Q3 2024). Data leaders survey on data-management readiness for AI (n=248).
This calculator is open source (Apache-2.0) — the model is transparent and yours to inspect. View the source on GitHub →
Go deeper
Curious what connected data looks like in practice?
This calculator models what fragmented data may be costing you. The knowledge-graph page on our main site shows how organizations connect the systems they already run, without replacing any of them.