Tools
Two numbers you will be asked for and do not have
Type your own figures in. The answer appears on this page. Nothing is stored and nothing reaches us.
Perform publishes two free tools that run entirely in your browser. The open role cost calculator prices a req that has been open for months. The agent inventory shows how many of nine governance questions you can answer about the AI agents already running in your company. Neither asks for an email address.
The tools
Both open on a worked example, so you can see the output before you type anything.
Tool · runs here · 2 minutes
The req has been open for months and nobody has priced it
Pick the role and the months open. Get how far past the market hiring time you are, the capacity the empty seat did not deliver, what you have already spent, and how a contract rate compares.
Tool · runs here · 3 minutes
Can you name every agent running in your company?
Nine questions a review board asks. On five, your answer sits next to what 445 practitioners told the Cloud Security Alliance. On four, no public number exists, and those are the hard ones.
| Tools on this page | Two |
|---|---|
| Cost | Free. No account, no email address, no form |
| Where the calculation runs | In your browser |
| What is sent to Perform | Nothing |
| Time per tool | Two to three minutes |
| Sources behind the defaults | US Bureau of Labor Statistics, ManpowerGroup, Stack Overflow, Cloud Security Alliance |
Do these tools store or send my numbers?
No. Both tools are HTML and JavaScript that run in your browser. The arithmetic happens on your device, nothing is written to a server, and Perform receives none of the figures you type.
- Copy my results: your figures, the sources behind them, and a link that reopens the tool on that exact result. This is the one you send a CFO.
- Share the tool: a clean link with none of your figures in it, so whoever opens it starts from the defaults and puts in their own.
Why is there no form?
Because a form would make the tool worth less to you and worth more to us, and that trade is the wrong way round. If a calculator is useful, it should be useful without a negotiation first.
- No account, no email address, and no gate in front of the result.
- If the output is worth a conversation, the contact page is one click away and a senior engineer reads what arrives.
Where do the default numbers come from?
Every default in both tools is published, cited on the page, and dated. Where a figure has no published source, the tool says so and does not guess.
- Salary medians: the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Stack Overflow developer survey.
- Hiring difficulty: the ManpowerGroup talent shortage survey of 39,063 employers.
- Agent governance: a Cloud Security Alliance survey of 445 practitioners.
- Four of the nine agent inventory questions have no benchmark anywhere, and the tool names them as unbenchmarked.
30 minutes with the engineer who would do the work.