INSIGHTS
Notes From Production
What holds up once a workflow reaches production — governance, evaluation, and the gap most demos never have to close.
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Why most enterprise AI pilots never reach production
What a six-week production workflow actually looks like
Claims intake, without the inbox pile-up
What ‘human-in-the-loop’ actually requires
6 WEEK PROCESS
What Actually Happens, Week by Week
Most six-week estimates are a guess dressed up as a plan. This is the real breakdown — what ships each week, and what has to be true before the next one starts.
WEEK 1
Discovery
Map the current workflow end to end, baseline its real cost, and pick the one intervention with the clearest, most defensible return. This is also where scope gets cut — not every part of the workflow is worth automating.
WEEK 2
Data & Access
Get read access to the systems the workflow touches, and pull the historical cases the model will actually be evaluated against — not synthetic examples built to make the demo look clean.
WEEK 3
Build
The retrieval or extraction logic, plus the evaluation harness that scores it against those historical cases before anyone outside the project sees a live output.
WEEK 4
Review Interface
The screen a human actually uses — source evidence, confidence, and an escalation path, not a black-box answer with an approve button standing in for judgment.
WEEK 5
Bounded Pilot
Live traffic, capped scope, a human reviewing every output while the numbers get tracked against the Week 1 baseline.
WEEK 6
Handoff
The metrics your team keeps owning going forward, plus documentation for whoever inherits the system next — not a workflow only the original builders understand.