Enterprise AI ROI & Business Case
Practical Working Session to Evaluate, Prioritize & Budget AI Initiatives
A focused, non-technical executive session for Business Unit Heads, COOs, CFOs, and Directors to cut through AI hype, audit vendor proposals, eliminate hidden inference overheads, and build an actionable, board-ready business case.
Reserve Your Seat
Join live to evaluate real use cases, size enterprise TCO, and build your board-ready pitch.
Attending the Strategic Briefing First?
Join Founder Vineet Srivastava on Wednesday, 28 October 2026 for The Economics of Enterprise AI webinar. Registered attendees get an exclusive 25% discount code for this hands-on November workshop.
Why 80% of Enterprise AI Initiatives Fail to Show Measurable ROI
Most AI projects do not fail because the underlying models are flawed. They fail because business cases are built on hype rather than unit economics, clear ownership, and measurable operational returns.
Runaway Token & Compute OPEX
Over-provisioning frontier LLMs for repetitive classification tasks, creating unpredictable monthly cloud bills that shock finance teams.
Aggressive Vendor Pitches
Third-party SaaS vendors wrapping open-source APIs with 5x markups while hiding recurring data pipeline and indexing costs.
Unquantified Value Hypotheses
Vague promises of "increased productivity" without mapping time savings directly to billable hours, capacity gains, or error reduction.
Boardroom & CFO Resistance
Failure to communicate risk mitigation, data residency, India DPDP Act compliance, and realistic payback horizons to the board.
Focused, Decision-Centric Session Breakdown
Designed strictly for business and operational decision-makers. No coding, no mathematical proofs, and no developer plumbing.
Unit 1: The Enterprise AI Evaluation Scorecard
45 Minutes • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM- Auditing Internal AI Proposals: A 5-point decision filter to distinguish real operational multipliers from shiny technology distractions.
- Sizing True Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Uncovering hidden line-items across vector retrieval, embedding updates, prompt drift, and data cleaning.
- Make vs. Buy vs. Partner Matrix: When to license enterprise SaaS, when to orchestrate APIs in-house, and when to partner.
Unit 2: Financial Modeling & ROI Calculation
45 Minutes • 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM- Hard Cost Savings vs. Soft Productivity: Translating hours saved into verified balance-sheet impact without CFO pushback.
- Token Economics Sizing: Partitioning workloads across Frontier LLMs, Mid-Weight Models, and Small Language Models (SLMs) to cut token OPEX by up to 90%.
- Risk, Compliance & Failure Buffering: Factoring compliance with India DPDP Act, data leakage guardrails, and rollback contingency reserves.
Unit 3: Packaging the Board-Ready Business Case
45 Minutes • 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM- The 1-Page Executive Investment Memo: How to present the business case, pilot milestones, and budget request clearly to the board and CFO.
- Defining Pilot Kill Criteria: Establishing strict 60-day KPIs so teams know exactly when to scale or shut down an experiment.
- Live Use-Case Teardown: Real enterprise case studies across supply chain, customer service, operations, and finance.
Interactive Q&A & Executive Peer Clinic
15 Minutes • 12:15 PM – 12:30 PM- Direct Q&A with Gaurav Gupta: Bring your current vendor RFPs, budget estimates, or internal project roadblocks for immediate expert feedback.
Tangible Executive Takeaway Deliverables
Every participant walks away with battle-tested frameworks ready for immediate internal deployment:
Designed for Senior Business & Technology Decision Makers
This session is tailored for leaders responsible for strategy, budgets, performance, and risk management.
Business Unit Heads & COOs
Leaders evaluating which operational bottlenecks AI can realistically resolve without creating new administrative overhead.
CFOs & Finance Directors
Financial leaders responsible for auditing AI budget requests, validating vendor contracts, and tracking project ROI.
CIOs, CTOs & Digital Heads
Technology leaders seeking a disciplined framework to bridge IT capabilities with business expectations and board scrutiny.
Founders & Managing Directors
Promoters and senior executives ensuring their organization adopts enterprise AI safely, strategically, and cost-effectively.
Meet Your Facilitator
Learn directly from an engineering leader bridging deep AI architecture with executive strategy.
Gaurav Gupta
Gaurav Gupta is the Chief Technology Officer at Zero Zeta and Guest Faculty at South Asian University. An alumnus of IIT Roorkee and IIM Bangalore, he brings over two decades of engineering and technology leadership in enterprise data science, AI systems architecture, and industrial automation. At Zero Zeta, Gaurav oversees platform architecture, industrial copilots, and multi-agent systems, helping enterprise leaders ground advanced AI models into reliable, high-ROI business realities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the November Executive AI ROI Workshop.
Is any programming, coding, or Python background required?
How is this workshop related to the October 28 webinar?
Can my organization get a GST-compliant tax invoice?
What if I am unable to attend live due to a scheduling conflict?
Why is the cohort capped at 25 leaders?
Build Your Defensible Enterprise AI Business Case
Join Gaurav Gupta on Saturday, 21 November 2026 for a practical working session to eliminate guesswork and align your AI roadmap with measurable business ROI.