A Practical Method for Choosing the Right AI Work Boundary

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Teams often talk about adopting AI as if the hard part were selecting a model. In practice, the harder decision is choosing the boundary around the work. A tool can draft, sort, compare, summarize, or recommend, but a useful implementation also defines what remains visible to a person. That boundary determines whether an experiment becomes a dependable workflow or a source of quiet rework. Start by describing the decision that the workflow supports.

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