> saves them 5k+ a week over all their compute

If you're willing and able to promote yourself internally, you can make people give a shit, or at least publicly claim they do. That's 260k+ per year, and even big businesses are going to care about that at some level, especially if it's something that can be replicated. Find 10 systems you can do that with, and it's 2.6m+ per year.

But, if you don't want to play the self-promotion game, yeah someone else is going to benefit from your work.