The deal closes, everyone celebrates — and then the launch stalls on a missing phone number, an unowned dashboard, or a fallback path nobody designed. This is the moment most AI vendors go vague. It's where we get specific.
Stabilization reviews at day 7, 14, and 30 — each one an artifact: what held, what leaked, what changed. Then the monthly executive briefing takes over.
First week live — gaps found and fixes pushed.
Against the baseline locked at kickoff.
Stabilization ends; monthly executive briefings begin.
It's twelve gates to confirm before an AI deployment goes live — from a master intake sheet and required custom values to the public number and fallback path per location, dashboard fields, QA sample size, locked success metrics, and a confirmed support escalation path. Every gate is verified, not assumed.
Before go-live. The deal closes, everyone celebrates, and then the launch stalls on a missing phone number, an unowned dashboard, or a fallback path nobody designed. Walking the twelve gates before launch day is how you catch those gaps before they find you.
Every gate is confirmed before go-live — or the launch date moves. The checklist is deliberately strict because launching on a blank field or an unowned dashboard is how a celebrated deal turns into cleanup. Confirming beats assuming, even when it costs a few days.
After launch, the first thirty days are scheduled, not improvised. Day 7 is a stabilization report of gaps found and fixes pushed, day 14 is a trend check against the baseline locked at kickoff, and day 30 is closeout — where stabilization ends and monthly executive briefings begin.
Walk the 12 gates with us — before go-live day finds the gaps for you.