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title: "The BotRot Check: What AI Chaos Costs You | The Sales Whisperer®"
description: Used AI for 30 days or more? You have BotRot. Answer five questions and see what it costs your company each year. A free check from The Sales Whisperer®.
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I Fix shAIt. · [The Sales Whisperer®](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/?hsLang=en)

# Used AI for 30 days? You have BotRot.

It's what happens when everyone is compelled *encouraged* to “get good at AI,” and no one runs it. Answer five questions. See what AI BotRot is really costing you…

[Check Your BotRot](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/botrot#start)

*Exposed***63%**of organizations have no policy to manage AI or catch unapproved use.

*Bleeding***$670K**more per breach where unapproved AI use is widespread.

*Unfocused***40%**of desk workers redid AI work last month. Two hours each time.

*Not profiting***95%**of company AI pilots show little or no profit impact.

Start here

## Tell us about your company.

Employees Industry

Your diagnosis

BotRot costs you about, per year

[Fix Your shAIt Now](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/meetings/wes15?utm_source=botrot-check&utm_medium=calculator&utm_campaign=fractional-ai-ops&hsLang=en)

Or call Wes at (714) 369-8004  
wes@thesaleswhisperer.com

Now the good news

## What running AI right is worth to you.

Fixing BotRot stops the bleeding. Running AI on purpose gives time back to every department. For your company, that's about  a year in time you already pay for.

Ranges are planning estimates, not promises. We count recovered time at your payroll cost, so new revenue from sales is extra.

### How we got your number

Your five answers set the rates below. Everything else comes from published studies or our stated assumptions, kept on the low side on purpose.

| Input | Value we use | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hourly cost | Employer cost per hour worked, wages plus benefits, for your industry (June 2026). The default is the private-industry average, $46.89 an hour, or about $97,500 a year | [U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/charts/employer-costs-for-employee-compensation/costs-by-industry.htm) |
| People hit by AI rework | 40% of employees | [Stanford Social Media Lab and BetterUp, 2025](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-workslop-is-a-9-million-issue-stanford-betterup-study/497483) |
| Time to fix one bad piece of AI work | 2 hours | Same study |
| Bad pieces per person per month | From your answer to #2: 0.5, 1, 2, or 4 | Our assumption. Frustration means rushing, and rushing means misses. |
| Cost when an error reaches a customer | 3x the in-house fix | Our assumption, well under the 10x the [1-10-100 rule](https://www.ease.io/blog/prevention-vs-detection-vs-correction-understanding-the-costs/) of quality cost suggests |
| Share of errors that reach customers | From #4: 5%, 20%, 35%, or 50% | Our assumption |
| Review time that slows work down | From #4: 2, 0.75, 0, or 0 hours per person per month | Our assumption |
| Duplicate work with no owner | From #1: 0.25 to 2.5 hours per person per month | Our assumption |
| Yearly staff turnover | 23% (1.9% a month) | [BLS, quits rate](https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/quits-rate-decreased-to-1-9-percent-in-november-2024.htm) |
| Time to rebuild a departed person's tools | 40 hours, less for each Yes in #3 | Our assumption |
| AI seat cost | $30 per employee per month, with the unproven share set by #5 | Our assumption of a typical business plan |
| Time AI gives back | 5.4% of work hours for people who use it | [Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2025](https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/feb/impact-generative-ai-work-productivity) |
| Share of a rep's week spent selling | 30% | [Salesforce State of Sales, via Landbase](https://www.landbase.com/blog/sales-reps-30-percent-time-selling-2026) |
| Department sizes | Sales 15%, operations 45%, support 12%, marketing 5%, finance 5%, HR 3%, leaders 5% (leaders at 2x pay) | Our assumption for a typical small to midsize company |
| Time back by department | The low end of each range sits near the Fed's 5.4% average. The high end assumes AI is run on purpose. | Our assumption |
| What a fix recovers | 30% of the total | Our assumption, deliberately conservative |
| Install fee | $17,500 | Multi-Department Install |

Security stats: [IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025](https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-breach-risks-rise-as-governance-lags/). Profit stat: [MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide, 2025](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mit-report-95-generative-ai-105412686.html). Breach risk is not counted in your dollar total.

© Wes Schaeffer, The Sales Whisperer®, 2006-2026 · HANK AI, inspected by Meridian

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