STAGE 3 OF 5 · SCORE 41–60

Operational Governance

AI is no longer a side project. It runs inside operations — tracked against SLAs, governed by policy, and reliably delivering across multiple workflows. The next move is enterprise-wide, but only if cross-functional coordination doesn't break what you've built.

STRATEGY
Cross-functional and audited

AI strategy spans support, product, and one or two adjacent functions. Governance is documented, audited, and surfaced to risk and compliance teams as a default, not as an exception.

OPERATIONS
SLA-tracked, observed, compliant

Every production workflow has an SLA, an evaluation pipeline, and a documented escalation path. Drift, regressions, and policy violations are observed continuously, not after the fact.

OUTCOMES
Multi-workflow value

Five or more production workflows compound into a defensible operating advantage. Wins are visible quarter-over-quarter and travel cleanly into board reports without translation.

Ready to scale across the enterprise?

Stage 4 organizations stop optimizing one workflow at a time. They orchestrate across functions — support, sales, product, ops — under a shared data model and a shared accountability line. The work is less about new pilots and more about retiring redundant ones.