All resources
AIPlaybook 12 min · 6 pages

Pilot-to-Production AI Playbook

A six-phase playbook for getting AI pilots out of demo-land and into production with the controls, evaluation, and adoption to sustain them.

The pilot brief template, pre-production gate, staged rollout plan, and sustain-phase rituals that separate pilots that ship from pilots that stall.

What's inside

  • One-page pilot brief template with kill criteria and sponsor accountability
  • Six-criterion pre-production gate (Outcome, Quality, Cost, Risk, Operations, Adoption)
  • Staged 10%/50%/100% rollout plan with explicit go/no-go checkpoints
  • Sustain-phase rituals: regression evals, cost-per-outcome tracking, graceful sunsetting

What you'll get out of it

  • A pilot that ships — or a defensible kill decision — within 8 weeks
  • An evaluation discipline that survives the next model upgrade
  • An adoption design that the workflow's owners actually use

Who it's for

  • Sponsors of AI pilots that look great in demo but stall before launch
  • Heads of AI / Data designing a portfolio of production use cases
  • Product and ops leaders responsible for the workflow the AI lives inside

Free download

Playbook · 6 pages

We respect your inbox. No spam, no resale of your details — ever.