of AI initiatives delivered the expected return on investment
Only 16% scaled enterprise-wide. The board must establish what will create value beyond a successful pilot.
Source: IBM CEO Study 2025aiQ Engine · AI Investment Quotient
Are you ready to sign off an AI investment?
Executive intelligence before you commit to AI. Before approving a work order, vendor contract, procurement request or pilot, understand what your organisation is committing to and what must be resolved before the decision is signed.
06 governance domains12 executive questions05 decision outcomes
Industry reference data
AI investment is accelerating. Reliable enterprise value is not keeping pace.
These external findings establish the decision context. They do not determine your result. aiQ examines the governance conditions behind the proposed investment.
of generative AI projects were forecast to stop after proof of concept
Cost, data quality, risk controls and business value must be challenged before organisational commitment.
Source: Gartner 2024and workflow redesign determine whether AI creates measurable value
Technology purchase alone is not the operating change. The board needs a named owner for the wider transformation.
Source: McKinsey Global Survey 2025of organisations reported using AI in 2024
Adoption pressure is rising quickly. The decision is whether the organisation is ready, not whether the market is moving.
Source: Stanford AI Index 2025Figures are presented with their original source and publication context. InfraVeritas360 does not convert industry statistics into an individual organisation’s decision.
A promise of easy migration is not evidence
Can you move from one AI platform to another without losing control?
An organisation may begin with 50 users, expand to 500, and later decide to move from its present cloud or AI platform to ChatGPT, Copilot or another provider. The real question is not whether a vendor says migration is possible. The question is whether your organisation has tested it.
- Was a cross-platform migration POC completed?
- What downtime, data loss or integration failure occurred?
- Did the new AI behave differently on the same work?
- What changed in controls, prompts, access and training?
- Could the organisation roll back safely?
Question 10 makes this a critical governance dependency, supported by evidence rather than assumption.
What the engine gives you
Not a pass or fail. A traceable executive position.
Proceed
The current governance baseline supports moving ahead with continuing executive oversight.
Proceed with Conditions
Named governance conditions must be accepted, owned and evidenced.
Controlled Pilot Only
Only a limited, reversible pilot should proceed while material gaps are resolved.
Defer the Decision
A critical dependency must be resolved and evidenced before commitment.
Do Not Proceed at This Stage
Multiple critical concerns make the initiative unsuitable in its present form.
Decision integrityA high score never overrides an unresolved critical governance dependency. A recommendation is never the executive decision.
Engine chronology
One clear journey from context to decision.
- S1Understand
Read the purpose, limitations and decision philosophy of the engine.
- S2Identify
Enter the participant’s name, mobile, work email, organisation and designation.
- S3Consent
Accept the terms and limitations, then complete the human verification.
- S4Profile
Declare organisational scale, industry, functions, dependencies and governance coverage.
- S5Assess
Answer all 12 governance questions, add context, confirm and submit.
- S6Decide
Review the recommendation, findings, conditions and evidence required.
The decision point