Technical readiness checklist for AI in production
Eight verifiable blocks, each with required evidence, to decide whether an AI system is ready for production — not just for a demo.
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Eight verifiable blocks, each with required evidence, to decide whether an AI system is ready for production — not just for a demo.
How to measure tokens and cost per unit of work, attribute spend by team, monitor quality, and back your ROI calculation with real data.
How to build an append-only, hash-chained record of AI decisions — with periodic anchoring, auditable correction, and vendor-independent export.
What to record, how long to keep it, and how to answer an auditor, a customer or a regulator without depending on your vendor's goodwill.
How to turn your AI usage policy into executable rules: risk classification, attribute-based authorization, guardrails and CI tests.
Roles, a risk-based approval matrix, an acceptable use policy and a use-case inventory — the minimum executive governance for scaling without surprises.
How to detect, mask, and, when authorized, re-identify personal data in AI pipelines without breaking inference or data-subject rights.
Legal basis, minimization, anonymization, impact assessments and model-vendor clauses — what changes when AI enters the workflow.
How to design the event schema, partitioning, retention, and indexing needed to turn prompts, retrieved context, and human edits into a reusable knowledge asset.
How to capture, version and curate prompts, responses and decisions so every AI use improves the next one — instead of vanishing at the end of the session.
How a corporate AI gateway becomes the single point of egress — identity, routing, DLP on request and response, cost limits and shadow AI blocking.
The real path of a corporate prompt: retention, model training, subprocessors and data residency — and the questions that belong in the contract.
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Everything we cover here — AI governance, legacy system integration, audit trails and preserved corporate knowledge — is available on the e.works platform at eworks.cloud.
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