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 "id": "assess-ai-workflow-value",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "AI workflow value checker",
 "summary": "Bring pilot results and costs. Get a clear call to scale, change or stop, with the evidence gaps and owners.",
 "headline": "AI workflow value checker",
 "subhead": "Share the workflow, pilot results and full costs. It checks outcomes, quality and cost, then gives a next step with an owner.",
 "job": {
  "id": "think-and-decide",
  "name": "Think it through and decide"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "medium",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "performance_sheet",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Performance sheet",
   "what": "ad or store performance export for a closed date window, with definitions"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "audit_report",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Audit report",
   "what": "findings with evidence, severity, missing inputs and next actions"
  },
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "The workflow, who uses it, and who decides what happens next.",
  "The pilot period and the pilot results.",
  "Your before numbers (baseline) for the same work.",
  "Cost lines: tools, review time, setup and support.",
  "Known quality, privacy or worker concerns (optional)."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A claim ledger that separates what you saw from what you assume.",
  "A full cost view, not only the tool price.",
  "Results split by user or task type.",
  "One decision: grow, limit, change or stop.",
  "The decision owner, missing evidence and a trigger to reverse it."
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "Your team ran an AI pilot and someone asks if it should grow.",
  "You need to say yes or no to a wider rollout, with proof.",
  "A tool saves time, but you worry about quality, privacy or extra review work.",
  "You want to decide who owns the next step and when to review it."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You only need a spreadsheet of costs or a financial model: build it in Google Sheets or ask your finance lead.",
  "You want to design tests that score an AI agent's answers: use an evaluation tool or a technical teammate instead.",
  "You have no pilot yet and no baseline numbers: run a small pilot first, then come back with the results."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "The workflow, who uses it, and who decides what happens next",
   "Your before numbers (baseline) and the pilot results",
   "Cost lines: tools, review time, setup and support",
   "Quality, privacy or worker concerns you already know about (optional)"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "An AI that can read the full skill folder, including its references and templates"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Claim ledger",
    "contains": "Each claim marked as an observation, an assumption or a cause, so you see what the data really shows."
   },
   {
    "name": "Outcome and countermetric map",
    "contains": "The result you want to move, and the quality or harm measures that could get worse."
   },
   {
    "name": "Full cost view",
    "contains": "All running costs of the workflow, including review effort, not only the tool price."
   },
   {
    "name": "Segment check",
    "contains": "Results split by user or task type, so averages do not hide problems."
   },
   {
    "name": "Decision record",
    "contains": "One choice: grow, limit, change or stop, with its limits, owner and review trigger."
   },
   {
    "name": "Missing evidence and reversal trigger",
    "contains": "What you still need to know, and what result would make you roll the decision back."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Download the whole skill folder, not only SKILL.md. It points to reference and template files that hold the detailed method.",
  "Open an AI that can read files, such as Claude, and add the folder. No code running or paid tool is needed.",
  "Gather your inputs first: pilot dates, baseline numbers, cost lines and quality measures.",
  "Paste or upload them and ask your AI to run the AI operating economics skill on your pilot.",
  "Check the claim ledger and the missing evidence list before you trust the decision.",
  "Share the decision record with its owner and set the review date."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Decision checklist runner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/decision-checklist-runner",
   "why": "Decide what to do"
  }
 ],
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  "by": "magnus919",
  "repo": "magnus919/agent-skills",
  "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3/ai-operating-economics",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "ai-operating-economics",
  "commit": "92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "ai-operating-economics skill",
   "by": "magnus919",
   "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3/ai-operating-economics",
   "used": "Original instructions and supporting files, with attribution and the MIT licence. Display copy describes the task."
  }
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  "evals/evals.json",
  "LICENSE.md",
  "README.md",
  "references/evidence-method.md",
  "references/source-index.md",
  "templates/ai-economics-review.md",
  "templates/ai-initiative-evidence-record.md"
 ],
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  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/assess-ai-workflow-value",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/assess-ai-workflow-value.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/assess-ai-workflow-value.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/assess-ai-workflow-value/SKILL.md",
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