Finance Teams

Finance teams sit at the intersection of AI adoption and procurement compliance. You are likely involved in approving AI tool purchases, assessing vendor costs, and ensuring the organisation stays within budget and procurement rules.

Public Skills Hub helps you understand AI tools well enough to evaluate business cases, ask informed questions about vendor data handling, and navigate the procurement routes that apply to technology purchases. Our procurement guides cover the Procurement Act 2023 in plain English, and our AI Vendor Due Diligence Questionnaire template gives you a structured framework for evaluating AI suppliers.

If your organisation is considering enterprise AI tools, our Choosing an AI Assistant guide provides a neutral comparison of the major options including pricing structures and typical approval paths.

**Common questions you face:** How do I price the ROI of AI? Which procurement route applies to a £50k AI tool versus a £500k one? What's hidden in AI vendor pricing models? How do I challenge a 'we need AI to compete' business case? Our Choosing an AI Assistant for UK Workplaces, Procurement Route Explainer, Procurement Thresholds Calculator, and AI Vendor Due Diligence Questionnaire each tackle one of these directly.

**Where to start:** When an AI tool business case lands on your desk, run the proposed contract value through the Procurement Thresholds Calculator to confirm the right route, send the AI Vendor Due Diligence Questionnaire to the supplier, and use the Choosing an AI Assistant guide to sanity-check the comparable options. The combination gives you a defensible, well-evidenced decision in hours rather than weeks.