The AI spend is on your P&L. The return is still a feeling.
Velocity puts a receipt behind the spend. Every Skill your people run on real work writes a Value Impact entry: time saved, at the employee hourly rate, as often as it runs. It is the method from Matt Kesby's Untangling AI (Wiley, USA Today National Bestseller).
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Value Impact ledger/Finance · September5 entries
Example Value Impact ledger for a finance team
Date
Person
Skill
Min saved
Rate
Value Impact
Entry
25 Sep
Priya N.
Variance Commentary Skill
110
$72
$132.00
Real run
25 Sep
Tom W.
Invoice Review Skill
185
$64
$197.33
Real run
24 Sep
Priya N.
Board Pack Prep Skill
80
$72
$96.00
Real run
24 Sep
Lena K.
Accruals Journal Skill
40
$68
$45.33
Adjusted · flagged
23 Sep
Tom W.
Invoice Review Skill
185
185m Test V.I.
Practice · excluded
Real Value Impact · 4 real runs
415
$470.66
Practice not counted
Frozen at run time
Practice excluded
Adjusted credit capped and flagged
Illustration · example dataExample ledger for a finance team. The rules are the product's: values freeze at run time, practice is excluded, adjustments are capped and flagged.
To the CFO
You signed off on the licenses. Twelve months on, the business case is a survey score and a vendor deck. When the board asks what AI returned, you have adoption rates, not dollars.
The ledger only moves when real work does.
You walk away with a per-person, per-run dollar ledger: practice runs excluded, self-adjusted estimates bounded and flagged, built to survive an audit.
What changes
Every figure traces back to a run.
Frozen at run time
Each real run records the minutes saved and the employee hourly rate on the day it ran. A later change to a rate does not rewrite earlier receipts.
Practice kept out of the total
Practice runs bank Test V.I. in minutes. They never move the real ledger, so rehearsal cannot inflate the result.
Adjustments you can challenge
People can adjust a Skill's time saved to match their reality. Adjusted credit is capped, and flagged on the ledger.
Example Skills
Skills your finance team would run.
Real Skill titles built on Velocity. Your people's Skills are built from their own Positions, so your company's list will be its own.
Compile your monthly management accounts pack for reviewReporting
Draft management accounts variance commentary for finance lead reviewReporting
Prepare and review your balance sheet reconciliationsClose
Post your month-end accruals, prepayments and recurring journalsClose
Review your incoming supplier invoices before postingPayables
Reconcile your payroll totals to the GL and build the posting filePayroll
Value Impact
Run the numbers on your own team.
Pick one recurring task and a loaded hourly rate. This is the arithmetic every receipt uses.
The formula
Value Impact = (Time today × Cost × Frequency)
− (Time with the Skill × Cost × Frequency)
Untangling AI, chapter 4
Example: weekly variance commentary, written by three analysts.
Next step
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