Payback is the point at which the cumulative value an agent has produced equals what it cost to run. It is usually expressed as a payback period — the number of weeks or months until a deployment has earned back its investment.
Agentics computes payback from logged evidence: the time saved recorded across a deployment's ledger entries is valued and compared against the cost of running the agent. Once savings overtake cost, the deployment has paid back. Because the inputs come from the ledger rather than a sales projection, payback is an observed result, and it rolls up into anonymized benchmark snapshots so organizations can compare against typical periods for the same use case.