Description
Compare AI workflows using cost, time, quality, risk, data sensitivity, exceptions and measurable outcomes.
Built for small businesses evaluating AI use cases and human-review requirements. Most small businesses cannot say which tasks use AI, what data leaves the business, who checks the output or whether any of it saves time once review and rework are counted. List every AI use case, classify its data, set a risk tier from four questions, match human review to it, and time the task before and after AI against your own costs.
This is a complete system to decide which AI tasks to automate and keep the work under control: a
36-page guide that walks through the method, and a
13-sheet tracker that does the counting for you.
Who this is for
Small businesses evaluating AI use cases and human-review requirements.
The guide
A guide to the method: who it is for and who it is not, setup, every sheet and column defined, a complete worked example built on the demo data that ships in the file, the weekly routine, decision rules, common mistakes and troubleshooting.
The tracker
Sheets for AI Use Case Inventory, Data Classification, Risk Tier, Human Review, Cost Log, Time Baseline, Time After, Quality Score, Exceptions, Approval Log and Review Calendar, with a Start Here page and a Dashboard that blocks invalid inputs, names the single use case with the most urgent step in a seventeen-step gate order that puts critical exceptions and governance before savings, and ranks every active use case side by side on recurring cost, hours saved, net monthly benefit, ROI, average quality and exceptions per 100 tasks. 5112 formulas calculate as you fill it in, so
you are reading results rather than building a spreadsheet.
What you get
- 36-page PDF guide (11,805 words)
- 13-sheet Excel tracker with 5112 formulas,
Excel-format .xlsx, recalculated and mutation-tested in LibreOffice Calc. Microsoft Excel desktop and Google Sheets import were not verified; all formulas are visible and unlocked, with no macros or external connections - Read-me-first guide so you know where to start
- Instant download, 265 KB, yours to keep
What this is not
Internal planning and measurement only, not legal, privacy, employment, security, tax or financial advice, and not an AI compliance assessment or certification. The risk tier is a planning label from the buyer’s own answers, not a legal classification. Hours saved and labour value are estimates from the buyer’s own timed samples and hourly figure, describe the value of time rather than cash, and promise no savings. No connection to AI tools, no usage import, no automatic timing. Record kinds of data, never the data itself or credentials. Fixed input ranges do not auto-expand. Demonstration data is fictional.
