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ROI shows up in three places: delivery speed (teams with mature automation deploy 10\u201315\u00d7 more frequently), defect cost (bugs caught in CI cost roughly 10\u00d7 less<\/a> to fix than in staging, 100\u00d7 less than in production), and QA capacity (engineers shift from repetitive verification to higher-value exploratory testing). 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