The Value-First AI Triage
Playbook #002: The Value-First AI Triage
Executive Brief
Corporate AI portfolios are bloated with 'nice-to-have' experiments. Enforce a strict 90-day efficiency gate to ruthlessly prune projects that fail to deliver hard P&L impact.
Questions to Consider
- “What is the documented baseline for manual man-hours before we wrote a single line of code?”
- “Which specific P&L pain point does this solve for the lead manager?”
Expected Excuses
- The efficiency gains are mostly qualitative and hard to measure.
- The team is still adjusting to the new workflow.
Executive Script
Tell your team: 'If we do not see a verified 15% efficiency gain by Day 90, we are sunsetting the project and reallocating the budget.'
The Friction
Corporate AI portfolios are often bloated with projects that solve 'nice-to-have' problems rather than operational bottlenecks.
The Playbook: The 90-Day Efficiency Gate
Step 1: KPI Baseline
Document current manual man-hours for the target task before coding.
Step 2: Utility Stress-Test
Does this solve a P&L pain point for the lead manager, or just the board?
Step 3: The 90-Day Axe
If 15% efficiency isn't reached by Day 90, sunset the project immediately.
The 90-Day Efficiency Gate
# Triage Logic - eval_period_days: 90 - min_efficiency_gain: 0.15 - action_on_fail: SUNSET_PROJECT - reallocate_budget: true
Strategic Constraint
Investment Com.
P&L Impact
Efficiency High
Signal Strength
90-Day Cycle