Gating AI investment: eight gates from pilot to production

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Reviewed by Muthu · Playbook · Last verified Oct 18, 2026 · Drafted Oct 17, 2026 by seed-import/1.0 · Re-check by Apr 17, 2027 · 1 source

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Overview

A stage-gate checklist for funding AI use cases in a regulated enterprise: what evidence each gate needs, so money follows results instead of enthusiasm.¹

Points

1. The problem and its baseline
2. A value hypothesis with a number
3. Data rights and readiness
4. Risk tier and controls
5. Offline evaluation passed
6. Pilot results against the baseline
7. Operational readiness
8. Scale, with a sunset rule

Sources

1. Gating AI investment: eight gates from pilot to production · published Oct 16, 2026

Footnotes

1. Gating AI investment: eight gates from pilot to production, muthub.org, reviewed 2026-10-16. ↩