GEO ROI Calculator for CFOs

The only GEO ROI calculator your CFO will sign off on

Based on Zhang et al. 2026 methodology (arXiv:2604.25707) + 86-customer benchmark cohort

In 15 minutes, you get a GEO business case your CFO accepts — not a marketing argument, a reproducible calculation with traceable academic sources.

What you get

  • The complete Year-1 Net GEO ROI formula with its 3 traceable components (CAC delta, attribution, program cost)
  • Real Q1 2026 benchmarks by vertical: B2B SaaS −31%, Real Estate −51%, D2C −33%, Legal −31%, EdTech −36%
  • The 3-scenario table (conservative / expected / optimistic) ready to paste into Google Sheets
  • The 5 mistakes that kill your business case in the finance committee — and how to avoid them
  • A fully worked B2B SaaS example: net ROI $53,080, payback 132 days, multiple 2.76×

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Based on peer-reviewed research

Zhang, K., He, X., & Yao, J. (2026). From Citation Selection to Citation Absorption. arXiv:2604.25707 — CapstonAI Q1 2026 cohort (86 customers, 24,800 LLM responses analyzed).

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