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What the checklist helps you decide
A strong first private AI pilot is narrow: one repeated workflow, one owner, approved source materials, sample or redacted data, and a clear point where a person reviews the output before anything reaches a customer, patient, client, or public system.
Workflow fit
- Does the task happen often enough to justify a pilot?
- Are the inputs consistent: forms, emails, documents, tickets, or records?
- Can the team measure time saved, error reduction, faster routing, or better handoffs?
- Where does the AI stop and ask for human approval?
Sensitive-data boundary
- What customer, patient, financial, legal, employee, or operational data appears?
- Can the pilot begin with sample or redacted data?
- Which users can see prompts, sources, outputs, and audit events?
- What data gets blocked from prompts or flagged before output?
Pilot prep
- Business type and first workflow candidate.
- Current software stack and source documents.
- Sample outputs the team already trusts.
- Success metric and rollout decision criteria.