ai-use-case-business-case-builderlisted

# AI Use Case Business Case Builder A drafting tool for the moment after you have decided an AI automation is worth building, and before you walk into the room to ask for it. It produces a one-page business case in plain English that a non-technical decision-maker can read in two minutes and say yes to. It pairs naturally with the **FS Governance Tier Checker**: scope the tier first, then build the case to fund and approve it. ## Core Principle **A business case wins on the cost of the status quo, not the cleverness of the technology.** Decision-makers do not fund AI. They fund hours recovered, errors avoided, and risk reduced. Lead with what the current manual process costs the business every week. The automation is just the mechanism. ## What to Gather First Before drafting, collect these inputs from the user. Ask for any that are missing: - **The task** — what is done today, by whom, in plain English - **Frequency** — how often (daily, weekly, monthly) - **Time per cycle** — how long it currently takes a person - **Who does it** — role and rough seniority (drives the loaded hourly cost) - **Error or delay cost** — what goes wrong when it is done late or wrong, and what that costs - **The proposed automation** — what the AI tool would do, and what stays with a human - **The governance tier** — if known (run the FS Governance Tier Checker if not) If the user cannot answer the cost questions, help them estimate — a defensible estimate beats a blank. ## What to Retur