How to Measure AI Ambition: Evaluating Investment Ratios Compared to Industry Benchmarks
Hey everyone 👋 At Alma, we're trying to answer: how do we quantify our level of AI ambition? The ROI of Dust and Claude keeps coming up, but with 80%+ of Dust agents being private, a precise ROI is impossible to calculate. So instead of chasing ROI, we're digging into what is our conviction/ambition with AI and where we sit in terms of investment vs. comparable companies. Mistral put forward a ratio: AI investment / payroll mass
1%: low investment
~1.5-3%: Alma today
~2%: Capgemini (from what I've read)
10%: tech-first companies (Mistral), high investment
What are your thoughts on this approach? I'd love to hear your thoughts and if you have public figures, benchmarks or what you've heard from peers?