Plan / Free AI product tools

Component Complexity Estimator

Estimate tiered component build effort, maintenance, sprint capacity and three-year build-versus-buy costs.

Use AI handoff to bring the results into your project as a prompt, a skill or a context file for your agent.

What you’ll leave with

A complete component inventory, calibrated build and maintenance estimate, sprint capacity model, build-versus-buy comparison and AI delivery brief.

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Frame the decision

Decide what the inventory and investment estimate need to support.

Accountable ownerDecision, evidence and assumptionsCost model

Use these controls to calibrate the model to your team. Defaults are illustrative planning assumptions. Validate them with your team; they are not benchmark findings.

Component Inventory

Atomic componentsSingle-purpose, stateless, minimal variants. Examples: Button, Icon, Badge, Tag, Divider, Avatar.Molecular componentsComposed of atoms, some state, 2–5 variants. Examples: Input field, Checkbox, Radio, Tooltip, Toast, Chip.Organism componentsComplex composition, significant state/variants, responsive. Examples: Modal, Dropdown, Date picker, Card, Nav item.System patternsFull patterns, multi-state, multi-breakpoint, accessibility-critical. Examples: Data table, Form, Navigation, Calendar, Wizard.

Team & Rates

Blended hourly rate (USD)Fully loaded average cost per hour across all roles. Used in Simple mode. U.S. enterprise default: ~$95/hr.Designer rate (USD/hr)Loaded hourly rate for design role. Default: $85/hr.Engineer rate (USD/hr)Loaded hourly rate for frontend engineering. Default: $110/hr.QA rate (USD/hr)Loaded hourly rate for QA / test engineering. Default: $75/hr.Technical writer rate (USD/hr)Loaded hourly rate for documentation / technical writing. Default: $70/hr.

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