A fundable AI business case makes four things legible to leadership at once: impact, return, real cost and risk. Most initiatives stall because one of the four stays vague. Every AI initiative arrives at the same moment. The exploration is done: the workflow studied, the data evaluated, the vendor landscape reviewed, the fit tested. The initiative seems worth pursuing. Then someone in the room, often you, says: "Great. Let's build the business case." That is where too many te