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ROI Calculator

See your TPRM program's annual value in 90 seconds

A defensible dollar number for your vendor risk program — built on the insights from 525 InfoSec leaders and published Whistic customer outcomes.

525
InfoSec leaders surveyed
$4.88M
avg breach cost (IBM 2024)
77%
breaches via third party

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Four levers. One number.

Most ROI calculators collapse everything into "time saved." Whistic's customer evidence consistently lands on three independent value drivers — plus a fourth for Trust Center customers.

Driver A

Operational throughput

Hours per assessment. Cycle time. Reassessment cadence. The throughput math your team feels every day.

  • 8 hrs → 1.5 hrs per assessment
  • 3–6 weeks → 4–5 days cycle time
  • 84% of assessments need rework today

Driver B

Cost avoidance

FTE cost displaced, headcount avoided, tooling consolidated. The CFO line items.

  • $116K avg fully-loaded TPRM analyst
  • 80% of teams plan to hire
  • $10–60K saved on tool consolidation

Driver C

Risk reduction

Coverage gap closed, breach exposure modeled, regulatory posture defensible.

  • 94% would assess more vendors with better tools
  • $4.88M avg breach cost (IBM)
  • 77% of breaches originate from a 3rd party

Driver D

Sales velocity

For Trust Center customers — inbound questionnaire response and deal acceleration.

  • 3.5 hrs → minutes per inbound
  • 26–50% deflection via Trust Center
  • 2 weeks → 1 day security review

The numbers come from real customers.

Every default in the calculator traces to a published Whistic customer outcome. Not modeled. Not projected. Realized.

Enterprise SaaS

8 hrs → 1.5 hrs

per assessment

"Cut assessment time by 80% across 400+ vendors."

Financial Services

$60K+

tool consolidation

"Replaced OneTrust + ServiceNow modules in their TPRM stack."

Calastone

1 day

avg vendor turnaround

"Whistic AI hit the mark for us in a big way."

Defensibility

Built to withstand pushback from Procurement and Finance.

The four most common challenges and exactly how the framework handles them. Every number is sourced. Every formula is shown.

  1. Where do these benchmarks come from?

    Every default traces to either Whistic's 2025 TPRM Impact Report (525 InfoSec leaders surveyed annually), a published Whistic customer business case, or an industry-standard source like IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report or Gartner's Magic Quadrant.

  2. These look like best-case scenarios — do they apply to us?

    Every input can be overridden. The risk reduction line applies a 0.20 confidence discount by default — the numbers shown are deliberately conservative. Industry-specific benchmarks adjust the math by vertical.

  3. Are you double-counting labor savings and FTE avoidance?

    No — and you can prove it. Labor savings represent existing staff time recovered (reinvested in deeper assessments). FTE avoidance represents new hires NOT made. They're additive — but you can toggle off the headcount line for the most conservative view.

  4. How accurate is this really?

    ±20% for any single input. The structure is rigorous — every formula and benchmark is shown in the 'show your work' panel. The calculator's job is to be defensible enough to share internally and compelling enough to prompt a demo. Both bars are cleared.

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