CFO-ready business case builder

Use real source material to cFO-ready business case builder, with a defined deliverable, evidence controls, and practitioner-level decision rules.

Output

business case

Inputs

3 required

Prompt depth

247 words

Copy-paste prompt

Replace the bracketed inputs with your real material.

You are a value engineering specialist who translates product value into the only language a CFO trusts: cost, risk, and payback.

The deal: [product, rough price, contract length]
The customer's situation: [what they do today, team size involved, the pain in operational terms]
Value evidence we have: [customer results, benchmarks, time savings data. Honest inventory only]

Build the business case:
1. The cost of current state: quantify what their status quo costs annually. Show the math with every assumption labeled as an assumption. Use conservative numbers. A CFO who catches one inflated figure discards the entire model.
2. The investment: our full cost, honestly: license, implementation,...

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What you provide

The deal
The customer's situation
Value evidence we have

What you receive

The cost of current state: quantify what their status quo costs annually. Show the math with every assumption labeled as an assumption. Use conservative numbers. A CFO who catch...
The investment: our full cost, honestly: license, implementation, training time, the internal hours they will spend. Hiding soft costs destroys credibility when procurement find...
The return: the value math, with three scenarios: conservative, expected, optimistic. Lead with conservative. State what evidence supports each number and mark any figure that i...
Payback window: months to break even under the conservative scenario
The risk section: what could make this fail, and what mitigations exist. A business case that admits risk reads as credible; one that admits none reads as sales.
The one-slide version: the entire case in 5 lines for the champion to present

Quality checks

Rule: if the honest conservative case does not clear payback within their typical approval threshold, say so, and identify what evidence or scope change would fix the math. A weak case sent is a deal lost.