AI Strategy & Transformation · AI ROI Measurement
AI ROI Measurement
You can’t manage what you never measured. DayNova’s AI Capability Index scores your team before we start, after we leave and every 90 days for a year. Your capability increases, or we keep working.
+70% average AI capability improvement within two quarters
Built on Dr. Nicole Gravagna’s decision-science research
Re-scored every 90 days for a full year
Free · Takes 7 minutes
Get your team’s baseline score
The free AI Gap Report gives you a starting read on your team’s AI capability.
Your AI capability baseline
The pillars holding adoption back
Where to focus first
Companies we have experience with
Microsoft
GitHub
LEGO
adidas
Capital One
5280 Plastic Surgery
The problem
Most AI investment can’t be proven, so it gets cut.
License counts and usage logs don’t show whether your team makes better decisions with AI in hand. When capability isn’t measured, adoption can’t be defended.
Q3 AI budget review
Without DayNova
Licenses
250
Weekly logins
1,204
Prompts sent
18k
Capability score
No baseline
With DayNova
Capability score · Re-scored every 90 days
Why AI ROI stays invisible
Usage isn’t capability
Logins and token counts say nothing about better decisions.
Surveys measure opinion
Confidence isn’t capability, and feelings don’t survive a budget review.
No baseline
Without a starting score, there’s nothing to prove you moved.
DayNova fixes this with the AI Capability Index, a baseline score re-checked every 90 days so ROI is visible. Measurement starts with a quality bar. See how to set AI quality standards beyond “it works”.
The NOVA Framework
Our AI adoption framework, built on neuroscience.
NOVA is DayNova’s own AI adoption framework, built with neuroscientist Dr. Nicole Gravagna around how people change under pressure. Each phase sets up the next, so adoption holds past 90 days.
N · Narrow
Score your team’s baseline before any work begins.
O · Orchestrate
Agree on the pillars and targets leadership will track.
V · Validate
Re-score every 90 days so leadership sees capability holding.
A · Amplify
Track up to a full year after, so the ROI of AI is clear.
What we measure
Six pillars behind every AI capability score.
The AI Capability Index reads individual readiness and team capability, then scores the pillars that predict whether AI adoption holds.
A baseline, a target and proof you moved between them.
Fluency
Whether people use AI tools well, not just open them.
Judgment
Whether they know what to build, what to kill and what to trust.
Decision Rights
Whether it’s clear who owns what across the workflow.
Workflow Integration
Whether AI sits inside the real work or off to the side.
Adoption Durability
Whether usage holds under pressure or reverts to the old way.
Governance
Whether policies get followed because they were built with the team.
Proof
Results our clients can measure.
+70%
Average AI capability improvement score within two quarters
#1
Strategy behind Microsoft’s 2025 Semrush #1 AI Visibility Award
5.0
Average rating across verified client reviews on Clutch
Right fit, wrong fit
Best fit if you’re:
Asked to prove AI ROI to a board
Past the pilot stage with no capability baseline
Running AI training or builds that need proof
Ready to re-score every quarter for a year
Not the right fit if you want:
A one-time survey of how people feel
Usage dashboards sold as ROI
A score with no plan to move it
Measurement with no change behind it
Frequently asked questions
How do you measure the ROI of AI?
What is the AI Capability Index?
How is this different from a survey?
How often is my team scored?
Can we start with a free baseline?
How is an engagement priced?
Get your team’s baseline score for free.
The AI Gap Report takes about seven minutes and shows where your team’s AI capability stands today.
