Workflow & Acceptance Criteria
The decision, intended users, operating environment, baseline process, and agreed criteria for a useful result.
ETE AI & Agent Readiness Assessment
One workflow.
Evidence for your next move.
An independent acceptance review before you deploy or expand an AI workflow. Examine whether it meets your requirements, delivers worthwhile value, and can be supervised and recovered.
A practical starting point
Your tasks. Your people. Your operating conditions.
Start with one defined workflow and an upcoming decision. Agree the users, data, permissions, acceptance criteria, and evidence access before evaluation begins.
For example: an internal knowledge assistant for a professional-services team. The scope could examine answer quality, document access, employee verification time, escalation, and the fallback when the assistant is unavailable.
The questions the review should answer
- Does it complete the intended tasks well enough?
- Does the value hold up after review effort and costs?
- Can people supervise, stop, and recover the workflow?
- What evidence is missing or needs further testing?
- What conditions and changes require another review?
Assessment scope
Performance, value, and control.
Examined together.
Scope is proportionate to the workflow and decision. Testing methods, authorized access, technical specialist responsibilities, and a separate review of findings are agreed before work begins.
Performance & Reliability
Representative tasks, useful completion, consequential errors, exceptions, latency, and repeatability under the agreed test conditions.
Business Value & Operating Cost
Human review, rework, escalation, licensing, usage, and support costs. Time released is distinguished from realized cash savings.
Data & Access Boundaries
Authorized data, sensitive information, retrieval boundaries, retention, and third-party handling.
Identity & Action Authority
Agent identity, credentials, tool permissions, delegation, and the actions the system can take.
Effective Human Oversight
Who sees an approval request, the information available, reviewer capacity, escalation, and the ability to stop further action.
Recovery & Continuity
Authorized recovery exercises, access revocation, record preservation, manual fallback, and relevant supplier exit dependencies.
Vendor Evidence & Dependencies
Model and supplier claims, supporting documentation, known limitations, service dependencies, and evidence access.
Accountability & Decision Records
Named decision owners, control responsibilities, technical review, unresolved issues, and proposed conditions for proceeding.
Material Changes & Reassessment
Model, data, connector, permission, and intended-use changes; monitoring evidence and triggers for targeted retesting.
What you receive
An ETE Assurance Report.
Evidence for a real decision, with the assessed configuration, methods, findings, limitations, and next steps recorded.
Workflow & test plan
The assessed configuration, acceptance criteria, baseline, representative tasks, and authorized testing boundary.
Traceable evidence record
Findings classified by observed results, documentation, assertions, and unavailable evidence, with methods and limitations.
Performance & value findings
Task outcomes, errors, human effort, and operating costs within the agreed scope and evidence available.
Control & recovery findings
Approval, intervention, access, fallback, and continuity findings, with practical conditions to address gaps.
Prioritized action plan
Material issues, recommended next steps, proposed owners, and what requires additional evidence or retesting.
Executive decision brief
A concise, versioned record of the findings, open questions, and conditions for the accountable decision-maker.
Clear findings. Clear limits.
The report distinguishes what was tested from what was documented or asserted. Conclusions apply to the agreed scope and evidence available. Your organization retains deployment authority; the assessment is not a certification or government authorization.
Clarity starts with a conversation
What decision is coming next?
Share the workflow, your deployment or expansion timeline, and the evidence you can access. We’ll define a focused assessment around that decision.