Choose a bounded use case
Begin with a task such as triage, retrieval, summarisation or drafting. The team should be able to explain what a good result looks like and what must never happen.
Set access boundaries
Identify the information the feature can read, the people who can use it and whether outputs may make changes in another system. Access control belongs in the design, not only in policy.
Test against representative work
Build a small evaluation set that includes ordinary, difficult and incorrect inputs. Review quality, uncertainty, cost and failure modes before releasing the automation more widely.
Keep a person in consequential decisions
Design a visible review route when a result affects customers, money, safety, employment or other high-impact outcomes.
Maintain the feature over time
Assign owners for prompts, data sources, monitoring, feedback and fallbacks, because models and business processes both change.