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AI Pilots: From POC to Production Interview Questions

How to run a pilot that proves something: success criteria agreed up front, choosing pilot customers, and the work that sits between a successful pilot and a production launch.

  • 22 questions with model answers
  • 1 foundational · 6 intermediate · 15 advanced

Foundational AI Pilots: From POC to Production Questions

  1. Explain the difference between a pilot and a beta.Concept

Intermediate AI Pilots: From POC to Production Questions

  1. What success criteria should be agreed before a pilot begins?Concept
  2. How do you choose pilot customers, and what makes a bad one?Concept
  3. What data do you need to collect during a pilot that you would not otherwise?Concept
  4. How do you avoid a pilot that runs indefinitely?Case
  5. How does a pilot for an internal tool differ from a customer pilot?Concept
  6. What support model does a pilot need?Concept

Advanced AI Pilots: From POC to Production Questions

  1. Design a four-week pilot for an AI feature with one enterprise customer.Case
  2. Describe the pilot-to-production gap and the work that lives in it.Concept
  3. Why do most AI POCs fail to reach production? Give four reasons.Concept
  4. How do you handle a pilot that succeeds on quality but fails on cost?Case
  5. Design the exit criteria that end a pilot in either direction.Artifact critique
  6. Explain how pilot conditions differ from production conditions and why that matters.Concept
  7. What integration work should happen during a pilot rather than after?Concept
  8. Describe how you would scale a pilot from one customer to twenty.Case
  9. Critique a pilot that was run entirely by the team that built the feature.Artifact critique
  10. How do you price a pilot, and should you charge at all?Case
  11. Explain how you would use a pilot to build the eval set for production.Case
  12. What contractual protections should be in a pilot agreement?Concept
  13. How do you handle a pilot customer who wants custom behaviour that does not generalize?Case
  14. Describe the readiness review you would run before promoting a POC to production.Artifact critique
  15. Design a pilot live for a scenario I describe.Interview

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