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Research, frameworks, and contrarian takes from our practitioners.
The first habit is what we call compliance-by-design — the practice of embedding model risk officers and data governance leads in the build team from day one, rather than presenting them with a finished system at the gate. The second is a deliberate narrowing of scope: shipping one well-defined workflow end-to-end before expanding, rather than letting the pilot creep into a platform.
The third habit is uglier but more important. The teams that ship invest disproportionately in evaluation infrastructure — not just model metrics, but business-outcome metrics that the audit committee actually understands. They build the dashboard before they build the model. The fourth habit is structural: a named executive sponsor who has the authority to override a procurement objection, and who is willing to use it.
What separates the seven from the thirty-one is not technological sophistication. It is the patience to do the unsexy organisational work that production AI requires. The model is the smallest part of the problem...
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