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Prototype, pilot, production — three gates

AI features graduate through gates: prototype (works for you), pilot (friendly users plus feedback), production (guardrails, owner, rollback).

Take one AI thing you or your team built or plan. Mark its honest gate: prototype / pilot / production. You're done when you've listed what's missing for the next gate — usually an owner and a rollback plan.

Worked example

The demo that wowed the meeting is a prototype, not a product. Three gates: prototype (works for you), pilot (five friendly users and a feedback loop), production (guardrails, an owner, a rollback plan). Skipping gates is how AI features become incident reports.

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