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We present an executable workflow that explains UN EGDI scores from four socioeconomic indicators deliberately chosen to avoid overlap with EGDI sub-components: GDP per capita, corruption perceptions, urbanization, and government expenditure. Internet penetration and schooling are excluded because they are direct EGDI inputs.

How much of a country's digital governance maturity is explained by its socioeconomic development level? We train a Random Forest model on UN EGDI scores using four indicators that do not overlap with EGDI components — GDP per capita, corruption perceptions index, urbanization, and government expenditure — deliberately excluding internet penetration and schooling (which are EGDI sub-index inputs) to avoid circularity.

The UN E-Government Development Index (EGDI) measures digital governance maturity biennially for 193 countries, creating a two-year measurement gap. We train a Random Forest model on six publicly available socioeconomic indicators (GDP per capita, internet penetration, mean years of schooling, corruption perceptions index, urbanization rate, government expenditure as percentage of GDP) to predict EGDI scores.

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, a system where the LLM serves as the primary analytical engine — not a wrapper — for identifying and economically evaluating government AI opportunities. Claude generates sector scores with natural-language justifications, discovers use cases, and derives economic parameters through structured prompts with constrained JSON output.

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.

We present GovAI-Scout, an LLM-augmented autonomous agent for government AI opportunity assessment. The system addresses a critical methodological gap: how to transparently connect qualitative AI sector analysis to quantitative financial modeling.

We present GovAI-Scout, an LLM-augmented autonomous agent that identifies, evaluates, and economically models high-impact AI deployment opportunities in government entities. The system combines a Claude-based reasoning layer for sector analysis and use case discovery with a structured econometric engine featuring government-realistic failure modes: procurement delays (6-24 months), cost overruns (45% probability per Standish CHAOS), political defunding risk (3-5% annual), and adoption ceilings (75-82%).

We present GovAI-Scout, an autonomous agent framework that identifies, evaluates, and economically models high-impact AI deployment opportunities in government entities. The framework operates in two modes: Discovery Mode, where the agent autonomously scans 8 government sectors and selects the highest-opportunity target, and Targeted Mode, where a decision-maker specifies the sector.