A practical, step-by-step playbook to frame predictive use cases, prepare data, choose simple models, validate results, deploy with human oversight, and monitor performance.
Data Readiness & Leakage Checklist. This checklist helps you decide whether your data supports a reliable predictive pilot and highlights the common problem of data leakage—when the model has access to information it would not realistically have at decision time. Basic availability. There is a clearly defined outcome...
Deployment & Human-in-the-Loop Checklist. Deploy predictions only when there's a clear plan for how humans will see, trust, act on, and override them. This checklist focuses on safety, clarity, and observability for a pilot deployment. Pre-deployment. Document acceptance criteria (minimum precision/recall, false-alarm...