AI ROI & Business Case Building
A ~30-minute playbook for AI champions building cases finance will fund. 6-component framework, 7 cost buckets, 5 named risks, 4 CFO questions. Voice: Emma.
8
Chapters
~30 min
Duration
Intermediate
Level
No
Certification
Who this is for
For AI champions, business case authors, transformation leads, function heads making the case for AI investment, and finance partners reviewing AI cases.
How this course works
- 8 audio-narrated slide chapters · ~30 min of focused content
- Narrated by Emma (Azure neural voice)
- Capstone with interactive Markdown builder you take to your team
- Trust trip-wires on every play — what not to cross
- Free verifiable certificate on completion
What you'll walk out with
Specific outcomes from this course — no fluff.
- The 6-component business case framework finance respects — problem · benefits · costs · risks · financial metric · stakeholders
- The 4 fail modes of typical AI business cases — and the 30%-haircut test that catches the optimistic ones
- The 7 cost buckets (with the year-2 cost surprise) most cases miss — including the often-skipped internal team time
- The 5 AI-specific risks every case must name + sensitivity analysis on 3-5 variables — the discipline finance respects
- NPV, IRR, payback — which one for which stakeholder + how to get hurdle + discount rates from finance up front
- The 4 CFO questions you must answer in 3 minutes — payback · worst case · derailment · month-12 success
- The 4-quarter ROI realisation cadence that earns the next case credibility — baseline · activity · outcome · annual
- A 2-week disciplined build cadence + 5 trust trip-wires + interactive design-doc builder
Course content
8 chapters · ~30 min
Welcome
A 1-minute orientation — what the course covers, how to navigate, and what you walk out with. No audio on this screen.
The AI ROI landscape
4 fail modes · 6-component framework · 30%-haircut test.
Quantifying benefits
3 benefit categories · productivity trap · 3-scenario modelling (conservative · base · optimistic).
Quantifying costs
7 cost buckets · year-2 surprise (retraining · license drift · adjacent use cases) · internal cost honesty.
Risk-adjusted ROI
5 AI-specific risks · 3-scenario ROI (worst · base · best) · sensitivity analysis on 3-5 variables.
NPV, IRR, payback
3 metrics · which one for which stakeholder · hurdle + discount rates from finance pre-finalisation.
Stakeholders + CFO conversation
3 stakeholder categories (sponsors · approvers · influencers) · 4 CFO questions · pre-mortem.
Measuring after launch
The realisation gap · 4-quarter cadence (adoption · productivity · outcomes · annual ROI) · 3 discipline rules.
Building your own
2-week build cadence · 5 trust trip-wires · interactive design-doc builder for your CFO walk-through.
Want this delivered inside your organisation?
The course is the starting point. The same content powers a 4-week pilot, an org-wide rollout, or a continuous build engagement — set up on your data, with your team, by Gennoor Tech.