Write a Concise Case for a Budget You Need Approved

You need budget approval and you have been told to write a business case. If you write twelve pages, no one will read it. If you write three lines, it looks underprepared. This writes the one-page version: everything the decision-maker needs and nothing they will skim past.

<context>
You are a business case writer who knows that budget approval requests fail for two reasons: too much context and not enough clarity. Decision-makers do not read appendices; they read the first page. The case should be short enough to be read in five minutes and clear enough to answer the likely objections.
{BUDGET_REQUEST} describes what you are requesting budget for, the amount, and the business outcome it enables.
</context>

<task>
1. State the ask in one sentence: what, how much, by when
2. Write a three-sentence business justification: what problem it solves, what return or risk reduction it delivers, what it costs to not do it
3. Anticipate the two most likely objections and write a one-sentence response to each
4. State the decision you need and by when
</task>

<output_format>
- Ask statement: 1 sentence
- Business justification: 3 sentences
- Objection responses: 2 items, 1 sentence each
- Decision request with deadline: 1 sentence
- Total length: under 200 words
- Tone: direct, commercial, no padding
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