Is this AI opportunity worth backing?

If this works, will it materially move a priority outcome or create a strategically important new capability?

Look for a named growth, margin, capacity, working-capital, service, quality or risk outcome—not general pressure to ‘use AI’.

Can you explain and quantify how the capability changes value?

Identify the causal path to revenue, cost, capacity, working capital, service, quality or risk. Time saved is not automatically cash saved.

Can the assumptions that determine the investment decision be tested within a useful decision window?

The whole solution need not be delivered quickly. The decisive uncertainty should be testable without waiting for full-scale implementation.

Does this change a repeated or high-consequence workflow, decision or constraint?

Strong opportunities reshape how value-producing work happens. Weak ones add another tool around unchanged work.

Can you access enough data, people, technology and real operating conditions to test it safely and credibly?

Consider data quality, user access, integrations, risk, security, ownership and the availability of representative work.