OpenAsset ROI calculator: Calculate your return on OpenAsset DAM and Shred
Aug 24, 2026
1 min
Wondering how much ROI your firm would get out of implementing OpenAsset DAM and Shred? This free fillable calculator helps you quantify time savings and boosted win rates into a hard number that will persuade your CFO, CMO, leadership team, and other key decision-makers.
Plug in your firm’s proposal volume, hourly rates, and time spent hunting for assets, and get a clear ROI multiple you can drop straight into a business case or budget request.
What’s inside the calculator
- Pre-built ROI formula: Automatically calculates total hours recovered per year against your fully-loaded hourly rate and platform cost, so you’re not building spreadsheet logic from scratch
- Firm-specific inputs: Enter your own numbers for proposals submitted per year, hours saved per proposal, asset search time, and CV/resume rebuild time, benchmarked against real ranges from AEC firms.
- A shareable output: Once you’ve filled in your firm’s data, you’ll have a clean, credible document you can send directly to your managing partner, CFO, or innovation committee. Simply remove any additional information or directly copy and paste your results from “Step 2”.
How to use the OpenAsset ROI calculator
To use this calculator to quantify the ROI you’d receive from OpenAsset DAM and Shred, simply:
- Make and save a copy of the free Google Sheet OpenAsset DAM + Shred ROI calculator spreadsheet so you can edit it with your numbers.
- Fill out the numbers in “Step 1” with your firm’s information. If you are already an OpenAsset user, you can directly input the numbers your firm has experienced. If you are not yet an OpenAsset user, you can estimate based on the provided benchmarks, and a personalized platform pricing quote from our sales team.
- Get your results in Step 2 of actual dollar amounts you could save by using the OpenAsset platform.
- Share these results with your leadership team and financial decision-makers to make a business case for using OpenAsset DAM and Shred.
Derek Ries is Chief Marketing Officer at OpenAsset, where he leads marketing strategy and helps firms rethink how content, data, and AI can support growth. He brings a storyteller’s lens to B2B marketing and go-to-market strategy, translating market shifts and customer insight into practical ideas for modern marketing and business development teams.
With 15 years of experience building demand generation and marketing operations functions, he’s an early adopter of AI tools and writes from direct experience, not just observation. His writing focuses on the future of AEC technology, pursuit strategy, brand, and the changing role of marketers in professional services firms.
