A single scorecard for evaluating any AI initiative on both what it's worth and how well it's controlled — business benefit, data rights, risk tier, agent permissions, operating cost, and measurable outcomes in one view.
Most organizations run two separate reviews for a new AI initiative: a value review in the business, and a risk review in legal, security, or data governance. The two rarely talk to each other. The result is either promising AI work stuck behind a generic risk process, or a genuinely risky agent approved because no one in the value conversation was equipped to flag the exposure.
The Scorecard rates any AI initiative — a pilot, an agent, a production model — across six dimensions spanning value and control, so approval, scaling, and retirement decisions all rest on the same evidence.
What this initiative is expected to deliver, and how confidently that estimate is held.
The full running cost, not just build cost — monitoring, oversight, and usage fees included.
Whether success criteria were defined before launch, and whether they're actually tracked since.
Whether the data behind it is licensed, consented, and permitted for this specific use.
A consistent classification, from a low-stakes internal tool to a high-stakes customer-facing decision.
What the agent is actually allowed to do — read, write, transact, or act autonomously — and within what limits.
Name the initiative, score all six dimensions from 1 (weak) to 5 (strong), and the composite verdict updates live. Add as many initiatives as you're currently evaluating.
Needing one shared view to approve, scale, or hold an AI initiative.
Evaluating data rights and agent permissioning before anything goes live.
Classifying initiatives by risk tier and reviewing what an agent is actually allowed to do.
Wanting the value case represented alongside control requirements, not overridden by them.
Rate each initiative on both the value criteria and the control criteria.
Value and control combine into one read: scale, scale with conditions, needs review, or hold.
Risk tier and permissions often change as an initiative moves from pilot to production — score again at each gate.
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