PRACTICAL CHECKLIST

Before your first AI pilot, ask these questions.

A shared starting point for business, HR, and engineering.

Purpose and people

What outcome are we trying to improve? Who does this work today? Have they helped define the experiment? Who can make the decision to continue, change, or stop?

Data and permissions

Which data can the system use? Who has approved that use? What can the system read, write, or send? Which actions require a person’s approval?

Quality and failure

Which realistic examples will we test? What is an acceptable result? What happens when the system is wrong, uncertain, unavailable, or given malicious instructions?

Delivery and ownership

Where will the pilot run? Who reviews it? How can it be stopped? Who supports the users, monitors the costs, and owns the result after the project ends?

Make it practical for your organization.

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