Nancy Wang

A fundable AI business case makes four things legible to leadership at once: impact, return, real cost and risk. Most initiatives stall because one of the four stays vague. Every AI initiative arrives at the same moment. The exploration is done: the workflow studied, the data evaluated, the vendor landscape reviewed, the fit tested. The initiative seems worth pursuing. Then someone in the room, often you, says: "Great. Let's build the business case." That is where too many teams quietly...

Some 88% of organizations use AI but only 39% see measurable impact. A four-dimension ROAI framework helps leaders prioritize the initiatives that create value.

Portfolio companies can't pause revenue to experiment. Autonomous marketing scales without proportional headcount growth, delivering operational leverage inside PE timelines