Make AI exceptions easier to investigate
A fictional team operates a bounded internal knowledge assistant. Operators review traces without a consistent link to model versions, evaluation cases and release decisions.
- Proposed workflow
- Group related traces · Identify the version · Run evaluation cases · Review the release
- Human control
- A release owner approves prompt, model and retrieval changes.
Human effort per month
Hours · review included20% less human effort under these assumptions. This is not cash savings.
Workload mix
- Knowledge issues50%
- Tool failures30%
- Policy checks20%
Assumed distribution, not measured activity.
Inspect the data, calculation and pilot decision
| Input or calculated measure | Illustrative value |
|---|---|
| Monthly in-scope volume | 40 investigations |
| Before: human minutes per item | 45 |
| Proposed: human minutes per item | 30 |
| Additional operating hours per month | 4 |
| Baseline human hours per month | 30 |
| Proposed human hours per month | 24 |
| Net capacity change per month | 6 hours |
| Illustrative pilot window | 4 weeks; not a delivery commitment |
| Assumed mix: Knowledge issues | 20 items |
| Assumed mix: Tool failures | 12 items |
| Assumed mix: Policy checks | 8 items |
Calculation: 40 × 45 ÷ 60 = 30 baseline hours. Proposed: 40 × 30 ÷ 60 + 4 operating hours = 24 hours.
Pilot decision: Can operators investigate exceptions while keeping regressions and action permissions controlled?
Limit: Risk reduction and traceability may matter more than time savings, but no invented avoided-loss value is assigned.
Fictional worked example. Future human handling includes review, exceptions and corrections; operating hours are additional. Compare the same workload before drawing a conclusion.