How this lab works
Realize, in plain terms
This is the payoff: a risk-adjusted business case where every number traces back to a real decision upstream. It starts from the value the AI could create, subtracts the honest leaks, and lands on the figure a CFO would actually sign off on.
Start from addressable value
Annual tasks the AI can touch, times the time saved per task, times the labor rate.
Value starts with how much real work the system can actually take off people's plates.
Subtract the leaks
Take out what's lost to low adoption, imperfect answer quality, run cost, and a risk discount.
Gross value is fantasy — the leaks are where the real return lands, and they're visible in the Value River.
Trace every number
Each input is inherited from an upstream lab: readiness from Data, quality from Build, run cost from AI Ops, risk tier from Govern.
A business case you can defend is one where every figure has a source, not a guess.
Test the assumptions
Override adoption, answer quality, minutes saved, or investment and watch the sensitivity bars react.
Know which lever moves ROI the most before you commit a budget to it.
Read the verdict
Risk-adjusted value per year, ROI, payback period, and three-year NPV.
This is the single read on whether the initiative is worth funding.
The initiative dossier
The whole program on one page, every number linked to the stage it came from — ready to hand a stakeholder.
It's the artifact that turns analysis into an actual decision.