Your AI business case is probably resting on the wrong assumption
zeuslac · reddit · 2026-09-26
The author builds a business case for one concrete AI use case the way finance would stress-test it, and reaches a counterintuitive conclusion:
- The model bill matters but wasn't decisive; the outcome hinged on something most business cases never measure
- A pilot everyone would happily sign off couldn't prove what it claimed to prove
- Two small misses, each harmless alone, flipped a profitable case into a loss
Published on Kairos Brief (Substack), useful reading for anyone pitching AI projects to management.
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