The Go-Live Gate.
40 questions to answer before an AI pilot goes into production. Twelve of them are gates: if any one is still a no, the pilot isn't ready, however good the demo looked.
What's inside
- 40 checks across eight areas, from evaluation and data boundaries to cost, failover and handover. Each is a statement your team can tick honestly, with why it matters and who should own it.
- 12 gates that must all be true before go-live, so the decision rests on evidence rather than on how good the demo looked.
- A scoring guide with three verdicts (Ship, Ship with conditions, Not yet) and what to do next in each case.
- A worked example: how a natural-language analytics system went from under 60% to 98% query success in four weeks, mapped to the checklist.
- A one-page summary sheet to print for your steering meeting, with sign-off lines, plus a tracker spreadsheet for owners, status and evidence.
For the executive sponsor, the engineering lead and the risk owner of an AI pilot that half-works and needs to ship. Best worked through together in an hour.
It's yours.
A copy of the link is on its way to your inbox too.
Book an hour with four to six people, print the summary sheet near the end, and score honestly: "we think so" counts as no.
Want it reviewed with you? The Go-Live Gate Review is one week on one pilot, including a measured baseline against your own cases. It costs £10,000, credited in full against Pilot to Production within 60 days.
Book a Go-Live Gate ReviewOpen gates often trace back to the organisation rather than the pilot. The AI readiness assessment takes about six minutes and shows where your organisation is stuck.
Or request an executive briefing