Deciding where AI goes
Every team has an AI idea, and the budget covers a few of them.
Take requests through one intake, cost each use case per task before it is built, and set the bar a pilot must clear to reach production. The board deck reports the result.
Downloads
Files you keep and edit: PDF, Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Most show part of the file before you ask for it.
- FormAI Use Case Intake and Triage FormA one-page intake for AI requests and a triage that scores value, feasibility and risk and routes each one: pilot, needs review or decline.
- ModelAI Unit Economics ModelAn Excel model of the cost of one completed task for an AI feature, against today's cost, with break-even volume and sensitivity to price and retries.
- ChecklistAI Pilot-to-Production GateA gate for moving an AI pilot to production: 31 criteria from measured value to rollback, a go, conditional go or stop rule, and sign-off.
- DeckAI Board Briefing DeckA nine-slide board briefing on AI, with prompts in every placeholder, a filled sample and speaker notes with the questions to prepare for.
Online tools
Fill in the page and get the result on screen. No account needed.
- CalculatorAI Use Case Prioritization ScorecardRank your AI initiatives by impact vs effort and identify quick wins, strategic bets, and traps.
- ChecklistAI Project Readiness ChecklistValidate readiness before launching AI and ML initiatives.
- AssessmentAI Adoption Readiness IndexAre You Stuck in AI Pilot Purgatory — or Ready to Scale?
Apps
Enter your situation and get the analysis back: a score, a draft or a plan. They run with a CIOPages account.
- AppAI ROI Reality CheckCut through tokenmaxxing — translate AI-tool spend and claimed productivity into net realized value after review, rework, and the maintenance tax on generated code.
- AppAI Capability Gap AnalyzerAssess your organization's AI readiness across data, talent, governance, and infrastructure.
Part of the job Decide where AI goes in the business.
Other sets
- Management consulting tools for CIOs
- Cutting cloud and SaaS spend
- Governing the AI already in use
- Buying AI: vendors and models
- Buying technology without regret
- AI regulation and risk
- Architecture decisions that hold up
- Technical debt you can show the CFO
- Security platform evaluations
- Running IT like an investment portfolio
- Org design and decision rights
- The first 100 days as a CIO
- Board and budget season
- Incidents and resilience
Keep reading
Rank your AI initiatives by impact vs effort and identify quick wins, strategic bets, and traps.
A gate for moving an AI pilot to production: 31 criteria from measured value to rollback, a go, conditional go or stop rule, and sign-off.