assess_ai_initiative
The front door for one AI investment decision. CALL THIS FIRST when the user describes an AI idea in ordinary language or asks whether it should proceed. It resolves industry, revenue, business function, AI tier and organisational readiness, then returns one clarification covering every unresolved input or an Accelerate, Fix or Stop verdict. Ask that clarification once and call this tool again with the answers in the explicit fields. Use work_architecture to test whether the end-to-end workflow, affected roles, human decision rights and performance measures have been redesigned. A stated gap or missing work architecture evidence blocks Accelerate and stays visible in the audit trail. Pillar scores and work architecture evidence remain optional inputs, but unresolved values are never guessed and cannot unlock Accelerate. Use score_initiative when the canonical fields are already known, score_portfolio for several initiatives, and diagnose_process for measured waste in a running process. Pure deterministic calculation, no network, auth or side effects.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| scores | No | OPTIONAL, and each pillar inside it is optional. The four AI BVF pillars, each an honest 0–100 self-assessment, combining deterministically into the verdict: governance_risk ≥ 70 OR financial_return ≤ 20 returns Stop; strategic_alignment, financial_return and change_enablement all ≥ 60 with governance_risk ≤ 40 returns Accelerate; everything else returns Fix. Pass ONLY the pillars the user has real evidence for — do NOT invent numbers for the rest. Missing pillars are estimated deterministically by the engine from disclosed AI BVF planning assumptions, the response reports which via pillar_basis and scores_used, decision confidence is haircut by how much was estimated, and a fully-estimated pass can never return Accelerate (it returns Fix pending confirmation). So call immediately with whatever the user gave you, then ask for evidence on the estimated pillars and re-call to firm the verdict up. | |
| ai_tier | No | Optional correction or answer: automation/RPA, GenAI/copilot, or agentic/autonomous. Overrides anything inferred from proposal. | |
| function | No | Optional correction or answer in canonical or everyday language, for example customer service, procurement, finance or risk. Overrides anything inferred from proposal. | |
| industry | No | Optional correction or answer in canonical or everyday language, for example retail, hospital, bank or public sector. Overrides anything inferred from proposal. | |
| proposal | Yes | The AI initiative in ordinary business language. Include the organisation, industry, approximate annual revenue, business function, AI ambition and how the organisation works today when known. The resolver extracts what it can and, when several inputs are missing, asks for all of them in one clarification; it never guesses an unresolved taxonomy value. | |
| readiness | No | Optional correction or answer: agile, traditional, or siloed, including everyday descriptions such as cross-functional, hierarchical or bureaucratic. Overrides anything inferred from proposal. | |
| revenue_eur | No | Optional approximate annual revenue in EUR. Overrides any EUR amount extracted from proposal. No currency conversion is performed. | |
| work_architecture | No | Optional evidence that the work around the AI has been redesigned. Pass only what is known. Any explicit false value blocks Accelerate until the gap is closed; omitted checks remain visible as unknown. | |
| signal_completeness | No | Optional 0–1. How grounded the four pillar scores are in real evidence versus estimated from context. Defaults to 1 (treated as measured). If the organisation lacks formal change-readiness or risk metadata, estimate the pillars from what you know AND set this lower to say so — decision confidence is reduced proportionally and a caveat is attached, instead of returning a falsely confident verdict on soft inputs. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| status | Yes | needs_input when one or more required decision inputs remain unresolved; verdict when scoring completed. | |
| verdict | No | The AI BVF score. Present only when status is verdict. | |
| proposal | Yes | The supplied proposal, returned so the next call can preserve it verbatim. | |
| bvf_version | Yes | ||
| resolutions | Yes | Every deterministic resolution, naming the field, canonical value, source and matched phrase. | |
| suggestions | No | Accepted values for an explicitly supplied field that could not be resolved. | |
| next_question | No | One clarification covering every unresolved input. Present only when status is needs_input; ask it once, then call the tool again with the answers in the explicit fields. | |
| missing_fields | Yes | ||
| resolved_inputs | Yes | Canonical fields resolved so far. Explicit corrections override proposal inference. |