Delivery Handoff Packet: Enterprise Research Assistant

Executive Decision

Approve a six-week read-only pilot to reduce analyst cycle time from two days to six hours while maintaining complete source support. Business owner: research operations. Residual confidentiality risk requires security acceptance.

ADR

Select a deterministic retrieve, rank, draft, validate, and human-approve workflow. Rejected adaptive agent because the path is stable and tool authority adds no measured value. Rejected one-call drafting because provenance failures cannot be localized.

Contract Index

Retrieval, claim, identity, structured error, evaluation, and trace contracts each name a version rule, failure behavior, owner, and deterministic test.

Operational Readiness

Freshness, P95 latency, task quality, and cost SLO dashboards are live. Every alert has an owner and runbook. The support-platform owner completed a tabletop stale-policy incident, disabled the route, and proved rollback to index v17.

Ownership Map

Research operations owns outcome; knowledge operations owns source freshness; identity owns permissions; quality owns labels and thresholds; SRE owns runtime; security approves confidentiality controls; product owns user communication.

Reversal Condition

Reversal is triggered if P95 exceeds 20 seconds for two windows, unsupported claim rate exceeds 1 percent, reviewer load exceeds eight minutes per report, or the workflow requires unmodeled discovery in more than 20 percent of tasks.