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COMPEL Glossary / ai-value-chain
AI value chain
The six-stage path — data, model, inference, decision, action, outcome — that an AI feature traverses to produce business value.
What this means in practice
Each stage introduces both value-creation opportunities and value-leakage risks; the value chain is the reasoning scaffold for isolating where shipped value is not becoming realized value.
Synonyms
AI value path , six-stage AI value chain
See also
- Shipped value — The outcome an AI feature can theoretically produce if it is adopted and sustained at design intent — the denominator against which realized value is compared.
- Realized value — The outcome the organisation actually captures from an AI feature, after accounting for adoption, override, and drift effects — distinct from shipped value, which is the theoretical capacity.
- Incremental value — Delivered outcome minus counterfactual outcome — the only value quantity that survives CFO and audit-committee scrutiny.
- KPI tree — A hierarchical decomposition of a business outcome into drivers and metrics — with arithmetic or causal relationships at each level.