Khalid ShamsPrincipal Solutions Architect

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The SHAMS Method

Five moves for putting AI into an organisation safely: Scope, Harden, Anchor, Measure, Sustain.

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The method

In one line

Five moves for putting AI into an organisation safely: Scope, Harden, Anchor, Measure, Sustain.

Picture it

A builder's order of work. Foundations before walls, walls before roof, roof before furniture.

Under the hood

Scope names the decision and its owner. Harden draws the boundaries and permissions. Anchor grounds every answer in governed data. Measure builds the harness and the cost model. Sustain adds the off switch, the traces and the exit criteria. The eight gates are how each move is signed off.

Builds on

Leads to

none

On a guided path

Path 6: Should we build one?, stop 7 of 10.

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