Allocate an AI portfolio budget when the evidence is uneven.

Instruction: Choose and defend a funding plan within the budget and staffing constraints. State what you would approve now, retain, or defer, and identify which missing evidence could change that decision.

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All amounts are fictional. A client has $300,000 to allocate this quarter and no obligation to spend it all. Project A needs $180,000 now and has strong pilot evidence for $120,000 annual net cash benefit after operating costs; a security gate already passes. Project B needs $220,000 for deployment but has no tested adoption evidence; a $40,000 discovery step can test its most important adoption assumption. Project C needs $100,000 but cannot start until data-use permission is resolved; its sponsor estimates $200,000 annual benefit without validation. Only A and B discovery can be staffed together. No discount rate, useful life, or probability estimates are supplied.

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I would approve A at $180,000 and B discovery at $40,000, committing $220,000 and retaining $80,000. A has strong supplied pilot evidence and passes its security gate, so I would authorize its deployment with an accountable operating owner and benefit tracking...

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