{
  "title": "Imperium published indicators: methodology and limits",
  "verified_on": "2026-09-24",
  "publisher": "Imperium",
  "published_source": "https://www.imperiumos.ai/",
  "client_context": "https://www.imperiumos.ai/clients",
  "status": "Company-published interview-based calculations. Includes targets, midpoint estimates and extrapolations. Not measured portfolio averages or audited savings.",
  "portrait_note": "These five figures combine different interviews. They must not be attributed to the individual shown beside them.",
  "metrics": [
    {
      "value": "52%",
      "label": "Estimated time returned",
      "methodology": "Mean of 60% conditional time-return,45% midpoint automation estimate and 50% inferred from a doubling-workload target.",
      "limitation": "Combines estimates, a conditional outcome and a target; not a measured time-return average."
    },
    {
      "value": "3.1×",
      "label": "Estimated output uplift",
      "methodology": "Mean of 6× reported task-output midpoint,2× target,2.5× inferred capacity and 1.8× inferred capacity.",
      "limitation": "Different tasks and inferred capacity measures; not a measured average productivity uplift."
    },
    {
      "value": "7.5",
      "label": "Estimated hiring avoided",
      "methodology": "Mean of five planned roles avoided and a ten-hire account published by Imperium.",
      "limitation": "Counterfactual hiring requirements, not actual headcount reductions or a representative portfolio average."
    },
    {
      "value": "$175,000",
      "label": "Modelled annual payroll avoided",
      "methodology": "Mean of $150,000 annualized from a $12,500 monthly midpoint and $200,000 assigned to another account of avoided specialist costs.",
      "limitation": "The second account does not establish an annual period. This annualized company model is not a directly reported or audited annual saving."
    },
    {
      "value": "5.6×",
      "label": "Estimated task-speed uplift",
      "methodology": "Mean of 6× task-output,8.7× inferred elapsed-time compression and 2× workload target.",
      "limitation": "Combines output, elapsed time and a target; not a measured like-for-like speed benchmark."
    }
  ]
}