Forming the Contract Before Kickoff

The most common reason an AI project cannot prove its value is simple: nobody measured the old way of working before the new one arrived. Six months after kickoff, the team reports that the assistant "saves a lot of time," and the business asks the obvious question: compared with what? If the answer is a reconstruction from memory, a few interviews, or the builders' own estimate, the result is not evidence. It is an opinion with a dashboard. This topic is about writing the contract and the baseline down before the first line of product code exists.…