Bias toward tools the team can actually operate. Counterpoint based on what stuck in reality. Ignore shiny features until you validate ROI.

Small anecdote that might help. Ensure sandbox parity to avoid release‑day surprises. We cut manual review time by ~30% just by clarifying thresholds.

Benchmarks lie; production traffic tells the story. The real cost driver was reprocessing, not inference. Two cents after running this through prod traffic.

Prioritize measurable lift over theoretical accuracy. Counterpoint based on what stuck in reality. Ignore shiny features until you validate ROI.

Not a direct answer, but here’s a practical angle that helped us. Automate sticky edge cases to save analyst time. We hit rate limits on day three; lightweight caching saved us.

Process tip that prevented a week of rework. Bias toward tools the team can actually operate. Track approval rate, chargebacks, and complaints weekly.

Legal sign-off took three weeks; budget that into your plan. Tune thresholds per segment; one size rarely fits all. Small anecdote that might help.

If volume is spiky, budget for burst capacity explicitly. Keep the system operable by the smallest competent team. Biggest risk is invisible complexity creeping in.

We phased traffic: 5% → 25% → 60% → 100% to de-risk. Design the rollout so rollback takes minutes, not hours. We learned this the hard way during a vendor swap.

Make alerting boring and reliable. Quick checklist that saved us time. If volume is spiky, budget for burst capacity explicitly.

Ship small and often to limit blast radius. Biggest risk is invisible complexity creeping in. Keep the system operable by the smallest competent team.

Train support to recognize false positives quickly. Quick checklist that saved us time. Make alerting boring and reliable.

Biggest risk is invisible complexity creeping in. Tune thresholds per segment; one size rarely fits all. Keep the system operable by the smallest competent team.

Ignore shiny features until you validate ROI. Counterpoint based on what stuck in reality. Design the rollout so rollback takes minutes, not hours.

Keep dependencies boring and well‑documented. Quick checklist that saved us time. Schedule a retro after the first month.