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title: 'Gating AI investment: eight gates from pilot to production'
description: '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.'
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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.[^s1]

# 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

# Read the original

The playbook and its self-assessment are on muthub.org: [Gating AI investment: eight gates from pilot to production](https://muthub.org/playbooks/gating-ai-investment).

[^s1]: Gating AI investment: eight gates from pilot to production, muthub.org, reviewed 2026-10-16.