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Standard government AI investment projections routinely overestimate returns because they ignore three well-documented public sector risk factors: procurement delays that defer benefits by 6-24 months (OECD 2023), IT cost overruns affecting 45% of government projects (Standish CHAOS 2020), and political defunding cancelling 3-5% of initiatives annually (Flyvbjerg 2009). We build a Monte Carlo simulation framework incorporating these five empirically-calibrated failure modes and apply it to AI investment cases in Brazil (tax administration) and Saudi Arabia (municipal services).

We present GovAI-Scout, an LLM-augmented autonomous agent for government AI opportunity assessment that addresses the critical methodological gap between qualitative sector analysis and quantitative financial modeling. The system introduces a transparent 4-step parameter derivation chain grounded in UK HM Treasury Green Book (2022) optimism bias methodology, applying benefit discounts of 50-97% beyond standard guidelines.

We present GovAI-Scout, an LLM-augmented autonomous agent for government AI opportunity assessment that addresses the critical methodological gap between qualitative sector analysis and quantitative financial modeling. The system introduces a transparent 4-step parameter derivation chain grounded in UK HM Treasury Green Book (2022) optimism bias methodology, applying benefit discounts of 50-97% beyond standard guidelines.