Frontier Function field guide
Keep people responsible for judgment, relationships, money, safety, and material risk.
AI implementation
What should remain under human review?
Start with the operating reality
Keep people responsible for judgment, relationships, money, safety, and material risk.
Document the current inputs, systems, decisions, handoffs, delays, rework, and exceptions. Establish a baseline before choosing a tool or model.
Design the controls with the workflow
Agree on approved sources, access limits, human review points, ownership, escalation, logging, and acceptance criteria. Test against real historical examples before expanding.
Measure usefulness after launch
Track turnaround time, quality, exceptions, adoption, and user confidence. Keep what works, repair what does not, and avoid automating judgment that should remain with a person.
