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The intake process

A single, mandatory front door for every AI idea. The intake form filters bad ideas before any build effort.

Minimum intake fields:

  • Workflow being targeted, and current pain point
  • Department / business unit / champion
  • Expected business value (cycle time saved, error reduction, revenue impact, cost saved)
  • Data the agent will see (PII? regulated? confidential?)
  • Decisions the agent will make (advisory? automated? consequential about people?)
  • Systems the agent will write to
  • Estimated volume per month
  • Proposed autonomy level (Assistive / Validated / Autonomous)
  • Known constraints (regulatory, contractual, customer-facing)

This produces the risk classification almost for free, and feeds directly into the Agent Card if approved.