← Putting AI to work in the business
"We have a promising, business-owned use case — but the workflow, baseline, value criteria, governance, and pilot boundary aren't defined well enough to authorize execution."
Authorize a controlled pilot, revise the use case, gather more evidence, defer, redirect, or stop.
We turn the selected use case into a bounded pilot definition: measurable decision criteria, accountable ownership, governance requirements, acceptance conditions, and an explicit authorization gate. Value, workflow ownership, adoption, and scale-decision evidence get defined before the pilot becomes implementation activity for its own sake.
A fit when: the use case and business owner are identified, sponsor and operating stakeholders are available, a baseline is feasible, and you can accept that definition may narrow, delay, redirect, or stop the pilot.
Not a fit when: use-case selection or ownership is unresolved (start with the Opportunity Assessment) or execution is already authorized against an accepted definition (go to Controlled Pilot Delivery).
The use-case definition · workflow and value baseline · KPI, value, and quality thresholds · stakeholder and control-owner model · data, integration, and feasibility constraints · pilot scope and exclusions · acceptance and stop criteria · the authorization and handoff package.
Governance, integration, data, adoption, procurement, and operating ownership surface early enough to change the definition — not in a late-stage review that kills the pilot after the money is spent.
A bounded Define-phase engagement around an authorizable pilot decision.
An internal pilot, Controlled Pilot Delivery, specialist or vendor delivery, revise, defer, or stop.
Definition artifacts you can put in front of your sponsor, your security team, and your operators — built with hands-on senior product and technology judgment across enterprise delivery and innovation contexts.
Define the use case and pilot decision See if this fits your situation