ROI
The meter pays for itself. We can prove it.
We find the waste, calculate its cost, compare it to the cost of the sensor that found it. In almost every project, the sensor pays for itself before the first year is out. The question isn’t whether you’ll get your money back — it’s how many opportunities are hiding in your facility right now.
Run the numbers on your plant
Three numbers you already know. The published benchmarks do the rest, and every one of them shows its source.
Illustrative plant · published benchmark shares
Those are your numbers in the form — add an email and we will run them.
Addressable in a typical utility spend
$192,000/yr
24% of $810,000 in annual utility spend · $1.60 per square foot across 120,000 sq ft · $48.00 per operating hour
| Utility | Your spend | Published share | Addressable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water | $90,000 | 20% | $18,000 |
| Electricity | $480,000 | 30% | $144,000 |
| Natural gas | $180,000 | 10% | $18,000 |
| Compressed air | $60,000 | 20% | $12,000 |
Conservative arithmetic, verified against your own utility bills. Your number comes from your own meters.
Where every share comes from
- Water — 20%. Quantify’s own average water reduction across client sites is over 20%.Quantify's own published claim: 'our average reduction rate is >20%'
- Electricity — 30%. Demand charges are often 30–40% of an industrial electricity bill.Quantify's own published framing: 'Demand charges are often 30–40% of the bill.'
- Natural gas — 10%. Unnoticed waste quietly inflates heating bills 10–20%.Quantify's own published framing: 'Unnoticed waste quietly inflates heating bills 10–20%.'
- Compressed air — 20%. Leaks silently eat 20–30% of compressor output.US DOE / Compressed Air Challenge leakage studies, as cited in Quantify's own concept footnote.
Each utility uses the conservative end of its published range. Every constant is [TOM-REVIEW] before launch (§G.2) and lives in src/data/benchmarks.json.
H3 — the estimator asks for an address before it personalizes the itemized result. It is shown on this page; nothing is emailed. [TOM-REVIEW] §K.2 #8 — LEADS ARE NOT WIRED TO HUBSPOT YET. /api/lead validates and — where the deployment gives it a D1 binding — stores the submission, and reports which happened so the gate's success panel can only promise a follow-up when one is possible; the HubSpot forms API for portal 21526267 and the emailed PDF are both unbuilt, and the gate's own copy says so to the visitor rather than promising a report nobody can send. The homepage teaser is ungated and returns a benchmark illustration only.
The payback maths.
One illustrative plant, its spend descending through the wedges a monitoring programme actually finds. The four wedges sum to $192,000 recoverable; the bar that closes the bridge is what is left after them.
Draw-once-then-hold (§E.3) — evidence must not appear to change. The wedges are the same published shares the estimator above uses, applied to the same illustrative plant, so the two figures are the same argument told twice.
The break-even marker this chart is built to carry is structurally gated: it can only be drawn against what the monitoring costs, and project.startingPrice is still [TOM-VALUE] (§K.1 #1). Rather than draw an invented price, the rule is emitted only when the constant lands — the same discipline that keeps two of the four calculators below dark. All figures shown are illustrative and computed from the §G.2 benchmark constants.
Four numbers you can check yourself.
No plant-wide model, no assumptions about your process — one loss, one rate, one answer. Water and compressed air are live; the other two are waiting on published rate constants.
What a leak costs
A leak is the easiest number on this page to check: you already know your water and sewer rate, and a leak runs whether or not the plant does.
What it costs you
$21,024/yr
- 5,256cubic metres a year
- $58a day
Conservative arithmetic, verified against your own utility bills. Your number comes from your own meters.
The constants behind this
water.combinedRate— 4 $/m³ (water + sewer)[TOM-REVIEW]Municipal rate schedules; the figure used in Quantify's own concept footnotes is 'municipal water + sewer ≈ $4.00/m³'. VERIFY against the current City of Guelph / Region of Waterloo schedule.
What compressed-air leaks cost
Compressed air is the most expensive utility per unit of work in most plants, and the published leakage range — 20 to 30% of output — is the easiest 20% you will ever recover.
What it costs you
$9,549/yr
- 79,573kWh a year, wasted
- 13.3kW of electrical draw doing no work
- 66.3kW drawn at the meter
Conservative arithmetic, verified against your own utility bills. Your number comes from your own meters.
The constants behind this
air.kwPerHp— 0.746 kW/hpPhysical constant. Note that it converts nameplate horsepower to SHAFT kW, not to the electrical kW a meter bills — see air.motorEfficiency.air.motorEfficiency— 0.9 fraction (shaft kW ÷ electrical kW)[TOM-REVIEW]US DOE Uniform Methods Project, Chapter 22 — Compressed Air Evaluation Protocol: electrical input power is shaft power divided by motor efficiency, and a measured or nameplate PACKAGE full-load kW is preferred over any hp-based estimate. NEMA Premium motors in the 50–200 hp band run about 0.93–0.95 at full load and lower at part load, so 0.90 is the conservative default until a nameplate or a measured package kW is supplied. energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/01/f19/UMPChapter22-compressed-air-evaluation.pdfair.leakShare— 0.2–0.3 fraction of output[TOM-REVIEW]US DOE / Compressed Air Challenge leakage studies, as cited in Quantify's own concept footnote.air.compressorHoursTypical— 6000 h/year[TOM-REVIEW]Quantify's own teleprompter example.electricity.blendedRate— 0.12 $/kWh[TOM-REVIEW]Ontario Class B blended rate as used in Quantify's own teleprompter ('6,000 hours a year at $0.12/kWh') and concept footnotes. VERIFY against the current IESO/OEB Class B blended rate.
What idle electrical load costs
Coming soon
Energy and demand, priced separately, because demand charges are often 30 to 40% of an industrial bill and they are set by minutes, not months.
The arithmetic is finished and tested. This calculator stays dark until the published rate constants it depends on are confirmed, because a calculator running on a guessed tariff is worse than no calculator.
The constants this is waiting on
electricity.demandChargeRate[TOM-VALUE]Local utility tariff — must be sourced per region. §K.1 #3.
Blocking constants: electricity.demandChargeRate. §G.2 — “a calculator must not ship with any [TOM-VALUE] constant in its live maths.”
What off-hours gas costs
Coming soon
Off-hours burn, with the carbon component priced beside it, because both move together and only one of them shows up on the bill as a line item.
The arithmetic is finished and tested. This calculator stays dark until the published rate constants it depends on are confirmed, because a calculator running on a guessed tariff is worse than no calculator.
The constants this is waiting on
gas.rate[TOM-VALUE]Enbridge Gas current rate schedule. §K.1 #4.gas.ghgFactor[TOM-VALUE]ECCC National Inventory Report emission factor for natural gas. §K.1 #5.gas.carbonPrice[TOM-VALUE]Current federal/provincial carbon pricing schedule — changes annually. §K.1 #6.
Blocking constants: gas.rate · gas.ghgFactor · gas.carbonPrice. §G.2 — “a calculator must not ship with any [TOM-VALUE] constant in its live maths.”
§G.2 — “a calculator must not ship with any [TOM-VALUE] constant in its live maths. Until the value lands, the affected calculator renders in ‘coming soon’ state with the other three live.” That is enforced by gateFor() reading src/data/benchmarks.json, not by anybody remembering.
What a typical project costs.
A typical project starts at [TOM-VALUE].
The cost of the monitoring system? A fraction of that. A sensor, a gateway, a dashboard — typically low to mid four figures for a focused monitoring point.
H5/H6 — this is the only price statement on the site, and it appears once. The figure is [TOM-VALUE] (§K.1 #1) and renders as that marker until it is confirmed.
Three results, with their sources.
Nothing on this site claims a result that is not in the proof register.
Pasteurizer water down from 28.0 to 5.5 m³/day, with no process changes and no capital cost.
Source: NB Power RFP 0770-25-S510 FINAL, Reference 3540,000L/dayCarlsberg CanadaA failing diaphragm pump caught before it became a shutdown — over $1,333/day in costs prevented.
Source: NB Power RFP 0770-25-S510 FINAL, Reference 3>450,000LPDI BulkOvernight flow found and stopped — over 450,000 litres of water saved in four months at one location.
Source: NB Power RFP 0770-25-S510 FINAL, Reference 1§H.1 — named with permission (G1/G7). Every figure carries the document it came from.
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