Copilot paywall went live today - here is the roi number finance actually cares about

microsoft turned off free copilot for enterprise teams today. every pm managing team tooling just got forced into an roi conversation with finance.

here's what I've learned tracking ai tool roi for the last few months: nobody cares about "hours saved." the number that actually works is review cycles eliminated per sprint. we went from four to two on stakeholder reports. that's a number with a dollar sign next to it.

second number that works: error categories that disappeared. not "fewer bugs" but "this specific type of mistake stopped happening." finance can verify that in the defect log.

the pm toolkit market just got real. whoever builds the "ai tool roi dashboard for non-technical PMs" is going to clean up. the demand showed up today.