Make the objective concrete. Describe what needs to change, what a useful result looks like, and how you will check it.
Every link needs an owner, a target, a method, and an actual.
1. Business outcome
What should improve? Decision quality, time to complete a task, scientific throughput, customer experience, or another meaningful result.
2. Capability measures
Translate that outcome into requirements for the AI capability: quality, reliability, response time, safety, accessibility, or another relevant measure.
3. Workload and use context
Describe the users, data, models, interaction patterns, operating conditions, and growth assumptions. What must happen when the system is uncertain or wrong?
4. Performance and acceptance targets
Choose representative tests, baselines, and acceptance conditions. State what will be measured and under which conditions.
5. Solution and infrastructure
Connect the requirements to data pipelines, models, applications, software, compute, storage, networking, and operations. Include the people and processes needed to use the system well.
6. Economics and energy
Understand the resources required for a useful result. Improve the full chain rather than one impressive number in isolation.