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Decision guide

AI Production Readiness Evidence Pack

A structured evidence inventory for system boundaries, representative tests, human authority, failure taxonomy, release criteria, and unresolved risk.

Decision resourceUse the artifact with a named owner
Resource type
Decision guide
Version
1.48.0
Decision
Teams need a practical inventory of evidence before approving an AI production release or enterprise review.

Purpose and use

Teams need a practical inventory of evidence before approving an AI production release or enterprise review.

Who should use it

Enterprise, Government, Partner decision owners, technical owners, reviewers, and delivery partners.

Decision supported

Teams need a practical inventory of evidence before approving an AI production release or enterprise review.

System and authority

For each item, record the responsible owner, evidence, and whether the answer is Yes, Partly, No, Unknown, or Not applicable when the worksheet format supports it.

  • Name the business problem and decision owner
  • Define users, affected parties, and consequences
  • Inventory models, prompts, retrieval, vendors, tools, and downstream actions
  • Map data sources, trust states, access boundaries, and retention expectations
  • Name human reviewers, approvers, execution roles, and escalation owners

Representative evaluation

For each item, record the responsible owner, evidence, and whether the answer is Yes, Partly, No, Unknown, or Not applicable when the worksheet format supports it.

  • Golden cases for expected work
  • Edge and ambiguous cases
  • Adversarial and prompt-injection cases
  • Refusal and insufficient-evidence cases
  • Access-control and tenant-boundary cases
  • Cost, latency, timeout, and dependency cases

Release evidence

For each item, record the responsible owner, evidence, and whether the answer is Yes, Partly, No, Unknown, or Not applicable when the worksheet format supports it.

  • Versioned test fixtures and system configuration
  • Observed results and failure taxonomy
  • Human calibration and disagreement records
  • Release, exception, rollback, and blocked-action criteria
  • Known limitations, unknowns, owners, and review dates
Usage boundary: A planning and review aid, not a formal assessment, audit, certification, or legal opinion.

Next action

Bring the system, the trigger, and what cannot fail.

Start with public-safe context. Sensitive evidence moves only after fit, responsibility, scope, and an approved channel are clear.

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