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Rivac Labs
AI Strategy, Readiness & Governance

AI Business Case & ROI/TCO Modeling

An AI initiative that can't survive a CFO's questions doesn't get funded, no matter how promising the technology looks. We build board-ready financial models that quantify expected return and total cost of ownership for a specific proposed initiative — implementation cost, ongoing inference and maintenance spend, expected productivity or revenue impact, and the risk-adjusted payback period. The model is built with your actual numbers and every assumption made explicit and auditable, not optimistic placeholder figures, so it holds up under scrutiny in a budget review. This is the document that turns an AI idea from 'sounds promising' into a fundable, tracked initiative with a number leadership can hold the team accountable to.

How We’d Approach This

A clear, staged plan — not a black box

  1. 1

    Gather cost inputs — implementation, licensing, inference, staffing — and expected benefit drivers directly from stakeholders

  2. 2

    Build a transparent ROI/TCO model with explicit, documented assumptions rather than hidden defaults

  3. 3

    Run sensitivity analysis across optimistic, base, and conservative scenarios to show the model's real risk range

  4. 4

    Present the business case to decision-makers and refine it based on their questions before final sign-off

What You Get

Deliverables from this engagement

  • Board-ready ROI/TCO financial model with documented assumptions
  • Sensitivity analysis across best-, base-, and worst-case scenarios
  • Payback period and break-even projections
  • Presentation-ready business case deck

Six Ways We Could Architect This

Different engagement, different build — pick the shape that fits

There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.

Ready to get started?

Tell us what you’re trying to get done and we’ll help you find the highest-leverage place to start — scoped small enough to prove itself before you commit to anything bigger.

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