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COMPEL Glossary / shipped-value

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.

What this means in practice

Shipped value is what the business case projects; realized value is what the organisation captures.

Synonyms

design-intent value , theoretical AI value

See also

  • 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.
  • AI business case — A six-part document — hypothesis, investment, benefit, risk profile, financial summary, recommendation — that justifies an AI investment with explicit counterfactual and confidence bands.
  • AI value chain — The six-stage path — data, model, inference, decision, action, outcome — that an AI feature traverses to produce business value.

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