What you pay
$60,000per year
$2.50 PEPM
MeBeBot / yr$60,000
DIY build*$8M–$17M
One DIY replication = 133 years of MeBeBot at this size, and 18–30 months before it answers a single question.
What Smart Search removes
Connected docs10,000
Raw knowledge base
Smart Search targets2,000
Governed & served500
9,500
stale, duplicate & conflicting docs taken out of your AI's reach
$107K
annual content-upkeep labor you stop spending
What you get back, every year
437%
net ROI on hard savings
2.2mo
payback period
Ticket deflection68% - published
+$215,424Content-upkeep savings
+$106,875MeBeBot subscription
−$60,000Net annual gain
=$262,299↑Additional upside - not counted above
$8.6M
Employee time recovered: 2 hrs/week per person back to real work (MeBeBot reports 2–5). Left out of the ROI multiple on purpose - it's real, but the case stands without it.