Learn AI · Guided path 6 of 6

Should we build one?

When you finish: You can run the questions that decide whether an agent is the right call, and name the gates it has to pass.

About 20 minutes · 10 stops, 6 of them ideas from the map · progress is kept on this device ·

An architect inspects five ascending platforms while an owner reviews the controls beside a closed gate. A lower platform is selected.

⏸ Control boundary · Higher is not automatically better

Read the concept diagram

Start at stop 1 All paths

The stops, in order

Each stop is one page. Read it, picture it, mark it, move on.

Ideas open on their own page with three depths. Atlas stops open the interactive lesson at the right step and count as done when you follow the run to its end. Sections count when you have read them.

1Four questions decide itMost teams should answer 'not yet' to the last one.section
2When to Use an AgentUse an agent when the steps vary each time and a person cannot be in every one. Otherwise use something simpler.idea
3Autonomy LadderFive levels of how much an AI system is allowed to do on its own, from suggesting to acting without review.idea
4The autonomy ladderFive rungs. Each one needs more of the estate underneath it.section
5The Eight GatesEight questions a system has to answer, in writing, before it is allowed to act in a business.idea
6The eight gatesBetween a demo and a system.section
7The SHAMS MethodFive moves for putting AI into an organisation safely: Scope, Harden, Anchor, Measure, Sustain.idea
8Data PlatformThe organised, governed home for an organisation's data, which AI has to be built on top of.idea
9Cloud FoundationsThe platform underneath everything: how accounts are organised, how networks connect, which rules are enforced automatically, and how cost is tracked.idea
10Run the gate checkScore a system you know against the eight gates.section

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