01Map
Represent the workflow.
Capture the workflow components and production requirements that matter to the approval decision.
Design-partner pilot
Pilot
Start with one production AI workflow.
Establish the workflow's approved state, introduce or assess change, and measure how much assurance work can be preserved without hiding uncertainty.
Pilot principle
Prove the control model on a bounded workflow before expanding scope, integrations, or deployment complexity.
Pilot workflow
One workflow. Four steps.
The pilot is designed to test whether Steerlane can create a reusable approval state and turn subsequent workflow change into a narrower assurance decision.
02Baseline
Establish approved state.
Connect the workflow to its assurance requirements, evidence, and reviewer decision so there is a trusted reference state.
03Change
Introduce or assess change.
Compare a candidate workflow with the approved baseline and identify meaningful changes across its components.
04Measure
Scope revalidation.
Trace assurance impact and measure what can remain valid, what must be revalidated, and what requires review.
Pilot inputs and outputs
Keep the engagement concrete.
The customer brings one representative workflow and its production context. Steerlane applies the control model and returns a structured view of readiness, approved state, change impact, and review scope.
Customer provides
InputThe workflow and its production context.
- One representative production AI workflow
- Current workflow components
- Production-readiness requirements
- Existing controls or evaluations where applicable
Steerlane provides
OutputA structured production-assurance decision.
- Workflow mapping
- Readiness assessment
- Approved baseline
- Change-impact analysis
- Assurance Delta
- Reviewer-ready decision context
Success metrics
Measure whether the control model creates operational leverage.
The pilot should produce evidence about whether selective revalidation is materially better than treating every workflow change as a full reapproval.
01
Review work avoided
How much broad reassessment can be avoided when unaffected assurance remains valid.
02
Evaluations avoided
Which evaluations do not need to be rerun because their dependency paths were unaffected.
03
Evidence reused
How much previously accepted evidence can remain valid after the candidate change.
04
Controls reopened
Which controls require new assurance work because an affected dependency was identified.
05
Decision time
How quickly the candidate workflow can move from detected change to a reviewable reapproval decision.
06
Change coverage
How much of the semantic change set can be mapped into known assurance dependencies.
07
Unmapped uncertainty
Which changes cannot yet be resolved automatically and therefore require explicit review.
What the pilot should prove
The goal is not a polished demo. It is a defensible operating result.
A useful design-partner pilot should answer concrete questions about workflow state, change impact, preservation, revalidation, and uncertainty.
01
Can the approved workflow state be represented clearly?
02
Can meaningful workflow change be separated from irrelevant configuration noise?
03
Can affected assurance paths be identified defensibly?
04
Can unaffected assurance state remain valid?
05
Can unresolved uncertainty be surfaced instead of hidden?
06
Can a reviewer receive a narrower and more explainable decision package?
Scope boundary
Start narrow. Expand only after the pilot proves value.
The initial pilot is deliberately scoped around the production-assurance problem rather than attempting a full enterprise rollout.
In scope
One representative workflow.
Establish its production requirements, baseline, change set, assurance impact, and reviewer-facing revalidation scope.
Not assumed
A full production deployment.
Enterprise integrations, hosting architecture, security requirements, and broader rollout scope should be evaluated separately with the design partner.
Design-partner conversation
Bring one workflow. Test whether the assurance process can become more selective.
Pilot scope, deployment boundaries, timing, and commercial terms are agreed with each design partner rather than assumed on this page.