AI evaluation and release readiness: Options appraisal and investment case

Appraise AI release options: demonstrations, uniform heavy evaluation, tiered evidence standard, or vendor-certified evaluation, with NPV and stresses.

Asset IDSTX-A0264

CategoryDecision and Communication Templates

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Prepared byStratenity Advisory Team

Executive summary

A method for choosing how much evidence AI releases need, on tested costs and realistic stresses.

What is inside

What the investment case covers

The asset walks an appraisal lead through defining options, building the workbook from the standard, running stresses, scoring, and writing the decision record. It includes an options matrix, a cost-benefit workbook layout, and a sensitivity table, with a worked synthetic case.

Four options from demonstrations to vendor certification
Value, cost, and risk from the frozen standard
Incident, grading, change, and cost stresses

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Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). AI evaluation and release readiness: Options appraisal and investment case. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/decision-and-communication-templates/ai-evaluation-and-release-readiness-options-appraisal-and-investment-case

Stratenity Advisory Team. "AI evaluation and release readiness: Options appraisal and investment case." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/decision-and-communication-templates/ai-evaluation-and-release-readiness-options-appraisal-and-investment-case.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "AI evaluation and release readiness: Options appraisal and investment case." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/decision-and-communication-templates/ai-evaluation-and-release-readiness-options-appraisal-and-investment-case.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) AI evaluation and release readiness: Options appraisal and investment case. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/decision-and-communication-templates/ai-evaluation-and-release-readiness-options-appraisal-and-investment-case (Accessed: the date of access).

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AI evaluation and release readiness: Options appraisal and investment case

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