PLAYBOOK · DELIVERY & ASSURANCE
The Lastmile Activate Playbook
Take an approved AI use case from green-light to governed production in 6–8 weeks.
42 pages · PDF · Delivery & Assurance
What it is
A practical, step-by-step guide to running the Activate phase of Lastmile — the 6–8 week deployment that wires policy, traces, cost, and evidence around a live use case. Drawn from real engagements, not slideware. Configuration checklists, go-live gates, and runbook templates included.
Who it's for
AI program leads, platform engineering managers, and product owners running an approved use case into production for the first time.
- AI program leads inheriting a green-lit use case
- Platform engineering managers responsible for AI in production
- Product owners who need a defensible go-live, not just a demo
- Risk and audit leads who want to see the controls before launch
What you get
- Week-by-week schedule for the 6–8 week Activate engagement
- Configuration checklists for policy, trace, cost, and evidence layers
- Go-live gate criteria — what 'ready' actually looks like
- Runbook templates ready to paste into your ops wiki
- Hand-off briefing pack template for Control
What's covered
Inside the playbook
Section 1 · Pre-Activate readiness
What the Qualify Handover Brief must contain before Activate can start, and the three killers that send teams back to Qualify.
Section 2 · Configuring the four control layers
Policy Hub, Trace Lens, Cost Lens, Evidence Vault — what to configure, what to defer, and what every team gets wrong the first time.
Section 3 · Integration without rip-and-replace
Sitting on top of your existing cloud and observability stack — patterns for Azure Foundry, Bedrock, Vertex AI, Langfuse, LangSmith, Lakera.
Section 4 · Quality gates and go-live
Six-dimension quality assessment, evidence baseline, executive scorecard live before users get the URL. Sign-off ladder included.
Section 5 · Hand-off to Control
The Go-Live Pack: what to capture, who signs it, and how the operating cadence transitions from project mode to managed service.
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