AI in 8 weeks: the enterprise readiness checklist
Eight weeks from kickoff to production is achievable — but only when a handful of things are already true. Run your initiative against this list before you start. If you can tick most of it, you're ready to move fast.
Is the problem worth eight weeks?
A single, well-bounded problem — not a platform, a strategy, and a wish list bundled together.
Tied to a number you already report, with a baseline you can compare against and a target worth hitting.
Someone whose week gets better when this ships — not a committee that "owns" it on paper.
Can you reach the data in week one?
Enough history, of enough quality, to be useful — and you know where it lives.
A path to a usable environment within the first week — security review running in parallel, not in series.
Clarity on PII, regulated fields, and what can leave which environment — decided up front, not discovered late.
Are the right people in the room?
The people who design the solution also ship it — no hand-off from a research team to a delivery team.
Someone empowered to make calls in the room, so choices don't escalate and stall for days.
Do you know where it will run?
Where the system runs, behind which boundary, and how it reaches the users or systems that consume it.
The teams who sign off production releases are part of the plan from week one, not surprised in week eight.
Will it survive after hand-off?
The system is measured against its target in production — not assumed to work because it worked in a notebook.
Code, systems and playbooks hand off cleanly, so ownership stays in-house with no lock-in.
Bring us the use case and we'll map the eight-week path in a 45-minute working session — and tell you honestly if you're not ready yet.
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