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§ 00 — AI Capital Recovery

The AI investment is on the books. Can you prove what it bought?

Every AI initiative that remains unreconciled is another investment the company cannot confidently retain, restructure, impair, terminate, or sell. 


Missing contracts, unallocated cloud charges, undocumented model changes, hidden review labor, and unclear decision ownership are blocking portfolio action.

Reconstruction comes before recovery.

Begin at § 01 — The ProblemHow recovery works
§ INDEX

Chapters

  1. § 01The ProblemWhy enterprise AI investments cannot currently be reconciled, valued, or cleanly unwound.
  2. § 02What We ExamineAI systems, vendors, expenditures, contracts, workflows, evidence, ownership, and dependencies.
  3. § 03How Recovery WorksFind → Reconstruct → Recover. Digital archaeology inside a moving system.
  4. § 04Recovery OutcomesRetain, remediate, replace, restructure, impair, terminate, and recover capital.
Continue to § 01
The Problem