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Estimate the 3‑year value of PlainID authorization

Agentic AI changes everything — run-time authorization makes it secure. Adjust the inputs below to size the business value PlainID can unlock across admin efficiency, developer velocity, compliance, breach-risk reduction and agentic identity governance.

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Role Management

25,000
10–50× employees
2.0
1–2 hours typical
20%
Typically 15–30%
$85
$75–$100/hr

Helpdesk & Access Requests

2,500
20–30% of IT tickets
$30
$25–$40
3-Year value potential
$2,910,750

Estimated business value PlainID can unlock over three years — based on your authorization complexity, delivery pace, audit burden, risk posture and agentic identity governance needs.

3-Year Benefits by Pillar

1. Admin Efficiency (PBAC vs RBAC)

Role Reduction Savings (50%)$1,275,000
Helpdesk Ticket Reduction (30%)$67,500
Subtotal: $1,342,500

2. Developer Velocity

Dev Coding Savings (90% reduction)$540,000
Subtotal: $540,000

3. Compliance Efficiency

Audit Labor Savings (75%)$112,500
Subtotal: $112,500

4. Risk Mitigation

Breach Risk Reduction (25%)$60,000
Subtotal: $60,000

5. Agentic Governance & Identity Authorization

Agent Governance Review Savings (70%)$267,750
Agent Authorization Change Savings (80%)$408,000
Agent Identity Incident Reduction (40%)$180,000
Subtotal: $855,750

Assumptions & value drivers

This calculator models a 3-year value view. Operational benefits are annualized and multiplied across three years. It shows the value PlainID can unlock — request a tailored business case for the investment side.

  • Admin efficiency: reducing role-maintenance effort and access-request ticket volume through centralized policy management.
  • Developer velocity: externalizing authorization logic and reducing custom authorization coding in new applications and APIs.
  • Compliance efficiency: improved auditability, consistent policy enforcement and easier evidence collection.
  • Risk mitigation: reducing expected breach exposure through finer-grained run-time authorization and stronger least-privilege enforcement.
  • Agentic governance & identity authorization: governing large volumes of non-human identities, reducing manual agent reviews, streamlining authorization changes and lowering agent-related incident exposure.
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ROI calculator — frequently asked questions

How the model works and what it measures.

  • How does the PlainID ROI calculator work?
    Enter a handful of metrics about your environment — number of roles, access-request volume, new applications per year, audit hours, breach exposure and the scale of your AI-agent estate. The calculator models the value PlainID's policy-based, run-time authorization can unlock across five pillars and projects it over a three-year window. Results update live as you adjust the sliders.
  • What value drivers does the calculator measure?
    Five pillars: admin efficiency (replacing role sprawl and access-request tickets with centralized policy), developer velocity (externalizing authorization instead of hand-coding it per app), compliance efficiency (consistent enforcement and faster audit evidence), risk mitigation (reducing expected breach exposure with least-privilege, run-time decisions) and agentic governance (governing non-human and AI-agent identities at scale).
  • Why does run-time authorization save money?
    Most organizations hard-code authorization into each application and manage access through thousands of static roles. That creates duplicated engineering work, brittle audits and over-privileged access. Externalizing authorization into a single policy-based platform removes that per-application effort, shrinks the role estate, makes compliance continuous and reduces the blast radius of a breach — which is where the modelled savings come from.
  • Does this estimate include the cost of PlainID?
    No. This calculator focuses on the business value PlainID can unlock. For a full business case that includes investment, net value, ROI and payback period tailored to your environment, request a personalized ROI analysis from our team.
  • How accurate are the numbers?
    The defaults reflect typical enterprise benchmarks, and every input is adjustable so the estimate reflects your reality. It is a directional model to size the opportunity, not a quote. A PlainID specialist can validate the assumptions and produce a detailed, defensible business case.