Tools
Tools you run in your browser
You put in your own numbers and the answer appears on the page. Nothing is stored and nothing reaches us.
Perform publishes two free tools that run entirely in your browser. The open role cost calculator shows what an unfilled technical role costs, measured against published hiring medians. 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 with a worked example already filled in, so you can see what the output looks like before you type anything.
Tool · runs here · 2 minutes
What an open technical role costs
Pick the role family and how many months the seat has been empty. You get the cost of the gap, how far the salary sits past the published hiring median, and the sprint capacity the team lost. Every default is cited.
Tool · runs here · 3 minutes
9 questions about the agents already running
Nine questions a review board asks about AI agents in production. Five carry a benchmark from a survey of 445 practitioners, so you can see where you sit. Four have no published number anywhere, and those are usually 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.
Each tool has two share buttons and they do different things. Copy my results gives you your figures, the sources behind them, and a link that reopens the tool on that exact result, which is what you send to a CFO. Share the tool gives 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.
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. Salary medians come from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Stack Overflow developer survey. The hiring difficulty figure comes from the ManpowerGroup talent shortage survey of 39,063 employers. The agent governance benchmarks come from a Cloud Security Alliance survey of 445 practitioners.
Where a figure has no published source, the tool says so and does not guess. 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.