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Your AI business case explains why to commit. Nobody wrote down what would make you change your mind.That second document is the one I now ask boards for. I call it the change case.The business case answers: what will this cost, and what will it return?The change case answers five other questions:🔰 Which assumptions does this investment depend on?🔰 Which developments would make us reconsider: a model, a price, a regulation, a provider?🔰 What stays portable if we move: data, prompts, evaluations, workflows?🔰 What would need to be rebuilt, revalidated or redesigned?🔰 Who has the authority to trigger that review, and on what evidence?This is not an argument for keeping every option open. That would be expensive and slow.Some commitments should deepen, because they create distinctive advantage. Others deserve deliberate reversibility, because the capability underneath them will evolve or commoditise.The discipline is knowing which is which before commitment becomes dependency.I have turned the five questions into a one-page change case template, with an example filled in for an AI customer service platform. Comment CHANGE and I will send it to you.
