The value case or operating path does not justify more investment. Preserve the evidence and redirect the team.
For PE-backed and mid-market operators
Your AI pilot has funding.
Now it needs a decision.
Depilot reviews one built AI pilot or agent, finds the first production bottleneck, and gives your leadership team a written kill, fix, or scale decision in 2-3 weeks.
Independent diagnosis and gate design. No implementation retainer. No incentive to keep a weak pilot alive.
The operating problem
The pilot is not waiting for another strategy deck.
It has a team, a sponsor, and a production claim. But the evidence is fragmented, the release bar keeps moving, and nobody wants to own the stop decision.
That ambiguity burns engineering time and delays the value case. Depilot turns it into one bounded decision.
01The demo works. The workflow does not.
Real cases expose missing access, handoffs, or controls.
02Metrics improved. The business case did not.
Model performance is disconnected from cost, risk, or outcome.
03The next funding gate is getting political.
Leadership needs evidence that is independent of the build team.
The output
A signed decision, not a longer backlog.
The review ends with the first failed production gate, the evidence behind it, and the minimum path forward.
The pilot can move, but only after a named bottleneck meets a written release condition.
The evidence supports a bounded launch with ownership, monitoring, rollback, and a kill switch.
The review
One system.
One owner.
One decision date.
The work stays narrow enough to finish and serious enough to use at an operating review or investment committee.
See the full review method- Week 1
Fix the decision and evidence.
Metrics, costs, eval artifacts, logs, incidents, architecture, and the current production claim.
- Week 2
Trace the real workflow.
Engineering, operations, and the sponsoring executive. Real cases from input to outcome to human touch.
- Week 3
Issue the verdict.
Kill, fix, or scale in writing, with the first failed gate, a 90-day recommendation, and executive readout.
Fit
Built for the decision owner.
Strong fit
- One funded, built pilot or agent
- A CTO, VP Eng, Head of AI, or operating leader owns the decision
- Production is blocked by evidence, economics, workflow, or controls
- There is a real decision date
Not a fit
- Idea-stage AI strategy
- A request for a development team
- Policy-only governance with no live system
- An open-ended transformation program
Independent by design
The verdict is not an implementation pitch.
Depilot reviews, identifies the bottleneck, recommends the path, and specifies the gates. Your team or chosen partner implements.
Start with evidence
Find the weakest gate in four minutes.
Run one pilot through the PROOF Scorecard. If the result exposes a decision worth taking, book a private triage with the score in hand.
No sales sequence. No implementation upsell. Bring one real pilot.