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Rapid scoping: a company wants to use AI to solve "X business problem"

1Give yourself 5 minutes

2Answer out loud, not in your head

3Then compare with the answer below

Reference answer

Spend the first 10-15 minutes asking: who is the user, what is the workflow today, what does success look like quantitatively, what data exists, what is the smallest measurable win in 30 days, and what is the political constraint (compliance, job displacement). Sketch the discovery on the whiteboard. Only after the answers do you propose an architecture (RAG vs. fine-tune vs. agent, sourced vs. custom model). Avoid the temptation to lead with the model choice.

Then expect these follow-ups

"How do you decide fine-tune vs. RAG vs. prompt?

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