Business value
How directly does the opportunity change revenue, cost, risk, capacity, or service?
0: interesting only
2: useful but indirect
4: material, measurable outcome
Strategic differentiation
Does better performance create an advantage specific to how the organization competes or serves?
0: commodity task
2: operational advantage
4: customer or market differentiation
Proprietary context
How much does success depend on organization-specific knowledge, rules, data, or integrations?
0: generic input
2: some internal context
4: proprietary context is the value
Control requirement
How specific are the permissions, evaluation, residency, audit, or failure-handling needs?
0: standard terms fit
2: configuration needed
4: custom control is essential
Organizational readiness
Is there an owner, usable source material, an evaluation set, and capacity to operate the result?
0: none are in place
2: gaps are bounded
4: owner and evidence are ready
The need is generic, or readiness is too low to operate a custom system responsibly.
Own workflow, evaluation, and integration while buying commodity platform capabilities.
Custom ownership may be justified, subject to a costed operating plan and explicit failure conditions.
Override: Score ______ Recommended path ____________________ Owner ____________________ Date __________
Reason for any override: ____________________________________________________________________________
This is a discussion tool, not an automated investment decision. A high opportunity score does not cancel a low readiness score. Celadon uses a more detailed version during an AI Decision Sprint.