AI business case

Most AI business cases fail in review for the same few reasons: nobody measured the process before the build started, the cost stack stopped at go-live, and the benefit was counted in minutes nobody ever reclaimed. This guide sets out how to calculate the return on an enterprise AI project so the number survives a finance challenge. It covers the formula and its two contested inputs, the full three-year cost stack, the six benefit levers that can actually be evidenced, the baseline you must capture first, a seven-step model, the choice between payback, net present value and internal rate of return, and a fully worked invoice-processing example with three scenarios.