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Score each candidate on risk-adjusted value, evidence confidence, time-to-value, and reversibility, then reject any option breaching hard constraints. Prefer lower-cost reversible pilots that produce decision-relevant information before committing to full automation.

It is a structured method to discover tasks, score value and risk, redesign processes, choose automation patterns, set human controls, pilot, and monitor drift. It ranks options by constraint compliance and confidence-weighted value rather than ad hoc enthusiasm.

Risk-adjusted value equals probability of success times expected incremental value, minus implementation cost and expected downside loss. Confidence-weighted value multiplies this by evidence confidence to penalize weakly supported estimates.

Approval is required for money movement, binding commitments, external communication, pricing or customer-impacting changes, production or safety changes, employment actions, access changes, personal-data use, and actions above budget or risk limits.

Avoid automation when the company lacks the maturity or capacity to absorb the system, when evidence could reverse the recommendation and a cheap test exists, or when liquidity, safety, legal, privacy, or trust exposure exceeds appetite. Redesign the process first before automating it.