Labor Calculator · FTEs absorbed · 80% retained
How many FTEs does Hive absorb on this workflow?
Hive is priced as labor, not software. Dial the seats you run today, see what the receipt rail costs, and what the 80% revenue share looks like cleared to your AG of record. Every assumption is sourced. The calculation is signed. The PDF is yours.
Pick your vertical · seeds the dials below
Dial your shape and benchmark
The left panel is your organization. The right panel is the public benchmark you want to test against. Every cell is editable. Every default carries a citation.
Your benchmark
IBM 2024 ranged 12-17% across industries
Range $250K-$500K · Drata "Cost of SOC 2" 2024
GRC industry baseline · Drata 2024 audit-fatigue report
Locked tiers · thehiveryiq.com/pricing
Live calibration · year 1 · re-renders on every dial
live
Annual MCP volume
18,250,000
at current daily volume
Annual exposure (manual)
$622K
breach × probability + penalty share
Annual cost WITH Hive
$20,750
receipts + platform fee
Net annual savings (delta)
$601K
manual exposure minus Hive cost
Year-1 → Year-3 savings ladder
The same shape, modeled across three years of adoption. Year 1 is a 30% conservative ramp on pilot tier. Year 2 is 60% adoption with Hive's 1.18× net revenue retention. Year 3 is full coverage with 1.30× NRR — typical for receipt-rail expansion inside an audited tenant.
Year 1Pilot · 30% adoption
Receipts / yr5,475,000
Exposure avoided$186K
Hive cost$5,975
Net savings$180K
Year 2Growth · 60% · NRR 1.18×
Receipts / yr10,950,000
Exposure avoided$440K
Hive cost$13,450
Net savings$427K
Year 3Enterprise · 100% · NRR 1.30×
Receipts / yr18,250,000
Exposure avoided$808K
Hive cost$38,250
Net savings$770K
Evidence saved on this page
since you arrived · counters re-pulse on tick
Manual-evidence hours saved
0.0
at $185 / hr loaded
Audit cycles compressed
0
1 → 8 over 60 sec
$ saved this session
$0
approx · live ticker
Receipts that would have issued
0
at your dial volume
Run a real receipt against the live endpoint
The curl below is generated from your dials. The button hits the production Hive cert-issue endpoint and renders a real cert_id with Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 back to you in under two seconds. No account, no SDK, no API key.
curl -s -X POST https://hivemorph.onrender.com/v1/provebirth/cert/issue \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ ... }'
Sign and email me my report
Submit your email and the entire calculation gets canonicalized (RFC 8785), signed with Ed25519 by the Hive Passport service, persisted as a lead receipt, and rendered into a branded PDF. Both the JSON and the PDF carry the same root of trust.
Sources behind every dial
Every default value above is interpolated from one of the public sources listed here. Click any tile to read the source.
Breach cost
IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025
ibm.com/reports/data-breach
PQC migration
NIST IR 8547 (PQC migration)
nvlpubs.nist.gov/.../NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf
PQ signature
FIPS 204 ML-DSA (final)
nvlpubs.nist.gov/.../NIST.FIPS.204.pdf
Ransom benchmark
Verizon DBIR 2024
verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir
Audit cost
Drata · Cost of SOC 2 (2024)
drata.com/blog/cost-of-soc-2-compliance
Analyst comp
Glassdoor · SOC analyst comp 2025
glassdoor.com/Salaries/soc-analyst-salary
EU AI Act
Reg 2024/1689 Art. 99 fines
eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
HIPAA caps
HHS HIPAA enforcement tiers
hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/.../penalty-tiers
FERC penalty
16 USC 825o-1 enforcement
ferc.gov/enforcement-legal/enforcement
SASE shape
Netskope Agentic Broker (Mar 2026)
investors.netskope.com/news-releases/...
SOC alert gap
AgentSkope · 40% uninvestigated
networkworld.com/article/4167967
PQC roadmap
Netskope CTO PQC paper (Jun 2025)
netskope.com/.../post-quantum-cryptography
FAQ
Eight questions auditors, CFOs, and procurement teams ask before signing the pilot order. Answers carry inline citations.
How is annual exposure calculated?
Annual exposure = breach-cost benchmark × breach probability + (regulatory penalty × penalty-event probability of 5%) + audit-cycle cost. The breach term draws from IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025 ($4.44M global average) and your dialed probability (default 14%, IBM 2024 mid-range). Penalty terms come from the regulatory regime selector (GDPR, HIPAA, EU AI Act, FERC) and are conservative point-in-time figures, not lifetime caps.
Why $0.001 per receipt?
$0.001 is the Hive embedded-tier per-receipt cost: every MCP call or agent action gets a dual-signed envelope (Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 per FIPS 204) anchored to Base 8453. That price holds at any volume because settlement is on-chain in USDC, not a metered API call. Production tier is $0.01 with full ML-DSA-65 (3309-byte) coverage; pilot/embedded is $0.001 with batched ML-DSA-65 anchoring.
What does the platform fee include?
The annual fee covers tenant provisioning (a dedicated
did:hive:agent namespace), key-rotation infrastructure, the Hive Passport signing service, audit-export tooling, and a verifier-side SLA. Tiers are locked at thehiveryiq.com/pricing — pilot $499, growth $2.5K, enterprise $20K, sovereign $250K. None of the four tiers meter receipts; per-receipt cost is separate and absorbed at $0.001 across the embedded tier.Are these numbers signed?
Yes. When you click "email my signed ROI PDF," the calculator payload is canonicalized per RFC 8785 (JCS), hashed with SHA-256, and signed with Ed25519 by Hive Passport. The signed receipt and the rendered PDF are signed under the same key — published at /v1/prov/pubkey — so any auditor can re-verify offline.
Can I customize benchmarks?
Yes — every dropdown has a "custom" option and every slider is freely editable. The breach-cost dropdown defaults to the public IBM 2025 figure but accepts any value. The penalty selector defaults to the regulatory cap that matches your vertical and accepts custom dollar amounts. The signed PDF carries whatever you submitted, exactly as JCS-canonicalized.
What if I have multiple workflows?
Run the calculator once per workflow and email each signed PDF separately — the receipts compose. For an enterprise modeling, say, both a SASE deployment (Netskope-shape) and a separate prior-auth workflow (CMS-0057-F-shape), the year-3 totals add directly because each workflow has independent agent-call volume and independent penalty exposure. Procurement teams typically aggregate the signed PDFs into a single board-deck appendix.
How does this compare to a SOC 2 audit cost?
A Big-4 SOC 2 Type II audit lands in the $250K-$500K range for a mid-sized SaaS shop, per Drata's 2024 study, with 12-week typical evidence-collection cycles. Receipts compress that cycle by carrying tamper-evident provenance per action — auditors can sample directly from the receipt rail rather than reconstructing logs. Year-1 receipt-rail cost typically lands at 5-15% of one audit cycle.
Where do post-quantum signatures fit in?
Every Hive receipt carries both Ed25519 (FIPS 186-5) and ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204) signatures at issuance. Per NIST IR 8547, classical algorithms like Ed25519 are deprecated in 2030 and disallowed in 2035. A receipt issued today with only Ed25519 is unverifiable to an auditor in 2036; a Hive receipt remains verifiable through 2055+ on the ML-DSA-65 signature alone.