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From Pilot to Production

Four gates, three kill points. Select a kill point and the annotation index below tracks it.

PilotEvalRisk gateProd

a b c

aNo owner. The pilot team dissolves at the demo; production arrives with no accountable executive to hold the incidents or the annual attestation.
bModel risk queue. Validation designed for models that change quarterly meets agents that ship weekly. The request queues, and the system changes again while it waits.
cNo budget line. Innovation funds the build. Nobody funds the run-rate — evals, monitoring, revalidation, second-line time — so the system has no way to stay alive.

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