What is an AI pilot?

The two rules separating useful pilots from theater: two at most at a time (human supervision is the scarce resource, not ideas) and both outcomes of the decision date count as success, because scaling produces a system and killing produces cheap learning. The log of what dead pilots taught is one of a company's most undervalued assets.

The one-page charter with the pilot's six fields (task and owner, baseline, metric, three-line-item cost, governance rules, decision date) is in the AI use cases blueprint, together with the matrix that decides which tasks deserve a pilot. The lab's framework, in AI systems.