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How to Structure an AI Pilot
A pilot should be designed to answer one question with a decision attached: do we proceed, and on what evidence.
Overview
- Fix the success metric and the evaluation data before the pilot starts; both are otherwise open to reinterpretation.
- Keep the pilot's scope narrow enough that a negative result is informative rather than ambiguous.
- Run it in the real workflow, with the real operators, for long enough to include bad weather.
- Decide in advance what happens on a negative result: stop, revise, or reframe the problem.
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